Spake Paul M Foster on Sunday, March 30, 2008 at 10:54PM -0400:
> telling your kernel the wrong filesystem type. I believe the bootloader
> has to know what type of filesystem to load (I don't believe it
> autodetects it), and it loads or tells the kernel to load the proper
> driver for it.
>
> I really think it's that simple. If someone else knows more than I do
> about this, please speak up.
Yes, sort of.
Grub needs the proper stage file for the filesystem
(/boot/grub/${FS_TYPE}_stage1_5), but it infers the filesystem type.
The kernel further infers the type of the root partition -- I think --
and other information comes from /etc/fstab.
I have switched from IDE to SATA, and to do this simply required copying from
the IDE harddrive to the SATA and editing
/etc/fstab to say "/dev/sda[123]" instead of "/dev/hda[123]", and running
grub-install on the new drive: (assuming /dev/sda1 is mounted to /mnt,
run grub-install /mnt).
--
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe."
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos
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