Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?
On 01:47 Wed 19 Oct , SpamHog wrote:
> I am cloning a 1-partition system (3.1/i386)
> from /dev/hda5 to /dev/hda6,
> and intend to install grub in that partition.
> No need to change drivers, etc. - *only* the root device.
>
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> I already did the following:
>
> - copied all files in the / tree to a filesystem on /dev/hda6
>
> - amended /etc/fstab to mount /dev/hda6 on /
>
> - amended /boot/grub/menu.lst to have (hd0,5) as root
> root=(hd0,5)
> kernel=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-2-686 root=(hd0,5)
>
root=(hd0,5) points grub to load the kernel from /dev/hda6
but the next line should have root=/dev/hda6 as the new root file system
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