[Ilugc] Boot problem after cloning

[Arun Venkataswamy]

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Raja Subramanian <rajasuperman at gmail.com>wrote:
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> Your initrd needs to have the via_pata drive included.  The simplest
> trick is to try reinstalling the kernel on the target machine.  Kernel
> package install hooks will rebuild the initrd image - hopefully with the
> via_pata driver included.
>
> Failing this, you'll have to read mkinitrd(8) and friends on how you
> can manually build an initrd image with via_pata included.
>
>
Thanks! Worked like magic.
I did not reinstall the kernel,
I used a Live CD to boot and then chroot to the hard disk. Then ran mkinitrd
and it cleanly included the pata_via module in the initrd image. The system
boots now...

With regards,
Arun Venkataswamy