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Re: Choosing which device gets mounted as root



On 9 Aug 2002, Scott Henson wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 10:18, andrej hocevar wrote:

> > NB: That is only one and the very same disk put into different
> > places.
> 
> Ok, let me see if I am understanding what you are doing.  You are using
> grub on a floppy to boot a computer?  Wouldn't fstab be on the
> respective file systems.  And even if they aren't doesn't grub have some
> copying facilities to do this?  Or are you simply switching out a single
> drive and taking from computer to computer.

I think that's what he's doing, i.e. moving a hard drive from one machine
to another.  But your question suggests a solution: why not have two boot
floppies, one for home and one for bro's machine?

Patrick

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Patrick Wiseman
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