I want to move my wife's operating system to another computer so that should involve a simple 'move the hard drive' operation shouldn't it? Wrong!
I've not come across anything like this before. The drive boots happily in my wife's computer but if I move it to either of two other computers it starts to boot and then stops with various errors.
mount: mounting /dev/root on /root failed: No such file of directory
the same with sys and proc.
Then there is a Busybox line and I end up in a shell prompt: '(initramfs) but the line before that says:
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off
and nothing appears when I type on the keyboard so I'm stuck.
This is using Squeeze with a standard Debian linux-image package, 2.6.32-5-686, which includes an initrd image. My wife's current computer uses an Athlon XP CPU and the one I'm trying to move to uses a Core 2 Duo both of which are covered by the linux-image.
Any ideas would be very welcome.