QNap Hard drive upgrade (Boot Sequence)
Hello
I have a Qnap TS-110, which I am using as a home server for the past
year. It runs Debian Squeeze.
I have decided to replace the internal hard drive with a much smaller
SSD, but I am concerned about how the Kirkwood boot sequence works, and
how I make sure that u-boot can find the kernel image and other
necessary files to boot on the new SSD drive.
Many years ago, when I used desktop based linux distros that used lilo
to boot, I recall that the boot block contained raw hard drive offsets
to the kernel an intrid image files, and if you moved the files on disc
without re-writing the lilo boot block then the boot sequence would fail
as the kernel would not be found, despite the fact that the pathname
remained the same.
Is there a similar issue with u-boot on Kirkwood devices? Do I need to
make an exact copy of the boot partition in order for it to work, or is
u-boot able to mount and understand the ext2 filesystem and find the
boot image by pathname?
Are there any similar issues with the root or any other partition on the
system?
Thank you.
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David Pottage
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