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echo: rberrypi
to: MIKE SCOTT
from: DRUCK
date: 2019-10-22 20:10:00
subject: Re: problem moving root t

On 22/10/2019 16:12, Mike Scott wrote:
> Hi all, I'm stumped with this one.
>
> I've got a running raspbian system: the root partition is on the SD
> card, while everything else is on various partitions on a connected hard
> drive.
>
> The hard drive has a spare partition, sda3, and I've rsync'ed root from
> the SD card onto that.
>
> I've changed cmdline.txt to reflect the moved root partition:
>
> original:
> console=...... root=PARTUUID=6c586e13-02 .....
> new:
> console=s.... root=PARTUUID=b9a242b4-1890-4c02-808b-36961834b2f6 ...

Have you also added this to cmdline.txt

 rootwait rootdelay=15

If you haven't it can fault loading the kernel as you've described.

---druck

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