Copying one HardDisk to another HardDisk

Hi,

I have a problem making a 2nd HardDisk bootable after copying it from 1st Disk

- This is done on a RedHat WS release 3, 2.4.21-4.EL
- We do not want to use "dd" to accomplish this task
- The 2nd disk needs to be bootable
- What we need to accomplish is to be able to boot on the 2nd Disk after moving 
it to the first slot.


Here are the steps am taking:

1. partition 2nd Disk
2. mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb1
   mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb2
   mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sdb5
   mkswap /dev/sdb3
   
3. mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
   mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/sdb2
   mount /dev/sdb5 /mnt/sdb5
 
4. cd /mnt/sdb1; dump 0f - /dev/sda1 | restore rf -
   cd /mnt/sdb2; dump 0f - /dev/sda2 | restore rf -
   cd /mnt/sdb5; dump 0f - /dev/sda5 | restore rf -
   
   I even tried the following:
   
   rsync -axvPS /boot/ /mnt/sdb1
   rsync -axvPS //     /mnt/sdb2
   rsync -axvPS /var/  /mnt/sdb5
   
5. If I reboot on the 2nd HardDisk at this time, I get this error message:
   mkrootdev: label / not found
   Mounting root filesystem
   mount: error 2 mounting ext3
   pivotroot: pivot_root(/sysroot,/sysroot/initrd) failed: 2
   umount /initrd/proc failed: 2
   Freeing unused kernel memory: 164 freed
   Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init=option to kernel.
   
   
   
6. I think I have to do something about grub on the 2nd HardDisk:
   #grub
   >root (hd1,0)
   >setup (hd1)
   
   However, I keep getting the same error message as above: Kernel panic
   
What am I doing wrong? Any help is much appreciated.

Thank you,
Anwar
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