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rompstar2
June 7th, 2014, 09:53 PM
ok, so I want to change servers, I have a much nicer machine now and it is super quiet compared to the one I have now...

So on the existing system I backed-up using tar to a back.file... this system is setup using LVM for the disk managment.

On my new system I just did a plain install, no LVM, so of course after I restore the backup.file at boot I get a:

error: no such devide: lettersxnumbers
error: disk 'lvmid ****' not found
loading initial ramdisk

So I guess I need to change this label so that it is not looking for the old disk ID, how do I do this ?

:-)

rompstar2
June 8th, 2014, 12:21 AM
never mind, I solved this using a Google search, thanks!

gdesilva
June 8th, 2014, 07:59 AM
It would help many others if you were able to post the solution - thanks