After a restore of a Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition (VSR-L) backup of a system volume to a different machine with a similar hardware configuration, the target system hangs during boot up
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Cause
Some Linux configuration files (for example /etc/fstab) are based on the device id's. An example of this is /dev/disk/by-id SCSI-36001cc90015700000ff6c97b04af6f2b- part2.
Resolution
NOTE: VSR-L does not support restoring to different hardware.
Workaround:
After restoring / and /boot partitions to the target machine, make the following changes before rebooting the machine.
1. Mount the restored system volume and modify the device entries in /etc/fstab, i.e. change the restored device-id with the device name of the target volumes.
2. Modify the /boot/grub/menu.list by replacing the restored device id's with the device name or id's of the system volume of the target machine.
3. Run the grub-install for /boot partition in rescue mode:
1. Mount the restored system volume and modify the device entries in /etc/fstab, i.e. change the restored device-id with the device name of the target volumes.
2. Modify the /boot/grub/menu.list by replacing the restored device id's with the device name or id's of the system volume of the target machine.
3. Run the grub-install for /boot partition in rescue mode:
a. grub
b. Grub > root (hd0,0)
c. Grub > setup (hd0)
4. Reboot the machine, and the system should start without errors.
Issue/Introduction
After a restore of a Veritas System Recovery Linux Edition (VSR-L) backup of a system volume to a different machine with a similar hardware configuration, the target system hangs during boot up
Additional Information
ETrack: 1803664
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