Re: migrate to new system disk
On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote:
> > 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot
> > loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb
> > installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago.
> > How do I manually install LILO to the boot sector of the new disk? I'm
> > sure it's simple, I just don't know the command.
> >
> > Thanks so much for your very helpful insight to this point Andrew.
>
> I haven't used lilo in years.. but if I remember right I ran the command
> "lilo" after making any changes to it's config and that would rewrite
> it.
>
If you (or anyone else) is using Grub, simply copying your files across
your files will not work due to the presence of UUIDs in the Grub2 config
files. I have been unable to find the proper procedure for updating those
UUIDs.
David
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