Re: [SLUG] Copying and booting linux with a partition with a?different filesystem type

From: Donald E Haselwood (dhaselwood@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Mar 31 2008 - 16:19:23 EST


On Monday 31 March 2008 01:52:38 pm Dylan William Hardison wrote:
> Spake Donald E Haselwood on Monday, March 31, 2008 at 12:16PM -0400:
> > Was the SATA filesystem the same as the one on the IDE?
>
> No, I just updated the fstype in /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).

Maybe that is the key, i.e. grub-install sets up the required filesystem.
(Hmm, but what happens if there are two partition types on the same drive
with two systems...)

Don
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