How to Image to a new Harddisk?

[novell1]

Hi,
I habe create a Image from a Opensuse 10.3 with the product Acronis and Clonezilla. If I image (restore) to the new Bootdisk, then the Opensuse 10.3 is waiting for the old Hardiskname "Samsung".
This happens with both Imageing products Acronis and Clonezilla.
Both products works when I restore the image to the old disk!
I boot the PC with the Opensuse 10.3 CD and choose Repair Installed System, after a while the system says An error occurred during the installation.
- How is the correct way for Imageing?
- How can I tell Opensuse if the hardware has changed?

Thanks a lot!

Novell1

[darkblue]

If I understand your issue correctly then, You have made images (back up) of the harddisk drives using clonezilla and then replaced your harddisk to the new harddrive... I mean you have changed the hardware!
If this is what you mean,
then,
1st Your operating system has setup everything when you installed it.
2nd Your image has ALL the information about your operating system and will not work with references to kernel changes, i.e. hardware changes.
For eg,
If I have a bootable disc, I copy all files to one folder then write to another disk, it will not be bootable disc, I have to setup as bootable, similarly, your operating system will not understand that you have changed your harddrive as it has installed the mount points on your old harddrive.
Get backup of your files and reinstall operating system on your newly configured machine!

If you have patience then wait, maybe someone in this forum knows about removing references from operating system and installing mount points on your harddrive by the operating system.
and yes, one more thing, your question, why it is still asking for your samsung drive then,
your boot loader, grub or lilo, has UID of your samsung harddrive which is copied in your clone image.
UID of harddrive is Unique Identifier of your harddrive, so your bootfile has that UID which needs to be replaced by your new harddrive, I don't think it is advisible for even a linux engineer to hack and play around with .conf files of lilo or grub!

[novell1]

Hi darkblue
thanks a lot for your message!!! Sorry for may bad english....!
Yes I changed the disk old Samsung 20Gb to a 120Gb disk.
I can do the new images (new Hardware) with Netware, also Windows W2K3, XP with no problem! (I am using Acronis, Ghost, Storage manager Portlock)
After Imageing the opensuse 10.3, it should be possible to change the bootloader settings easely????? I have read somewhere that I should do a new grub installation. I am the only one imageing Linux?(to a new Harddisk???)
Thanks for your tips!!!

novell1