Hello everybody!
I came upon a strange problem yesterday...
Well the story goes like this:
I bought a new HDD and after I moved my ext2 partition from the old to the new hdd, I tried to boot using a bootable cdrom (bare.i root=/dev/hda6 ro). The kernel was loaded and when I tried to log-on to my system, I realized that when i hit a key on the keyboard what is displayed on the prompt has nothing to do with the key i hit. For example i hit r-o-o-t and i get sthing like xx Ctr~012 and so on. I have no idea what could cause this. I would appreciate any help as I cannot log on to my system and I have to write you from windows

How did you moove your partition, for my part I used to do:
In this way I get a perfect clone (with all permissions set), I did it for /var and /home but from another system than one in the initial / partition (from a bootable CD for example), once partition perfectly cloned, you get same behaviour, no problem appears.

This is exactly what I did. I did tar -cvf to my old disc and tar- xvf to my new. I got no error during the whole process. I would like to ask the following? Do I have to copy all the directories if I change some hardware on my system? I think that /dev or /proc is not necesary to be copied as it is created every time the pc is started. Is it so?

/proc is virtual filesystem created automatically at boot, it does not exist physically in the drive but /dev are inodes (say sort of directory) and /dev exists physically in the drive. But again copy procedure must be done from another system that one installed in HD.

Well, what could cause that problem then? (

If I were you, I would try to boot from second CD of slackware install and follow the procedures to do repair with chroot and programms like /sbin/fsck.ext2. If fails, consider a fresh install of slackware in new drive, then copy data from old HD.

I don't think it is a matter of changing permissions. I did e2fsck and I got no erros...(partition clean) It will be extemely time spending to install it from scratch....

Try to boot from CD, mount your new HD, chroot /your new root partition and reinstall kbd and devs pakages.

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Install a minimal system with selected packages can be a more quick solution

I will give it a try....Anyway, thank you very much for your help.