On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 07:16:07PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:53:44 +0100, Robert Cates wrote: > > (...) > > > So, my question is - am I on the right path, will this work? Or do any > > of you have a better method to upgrade hard drives, under these > > circumstances? can I suggest, connect both drives to the machine, boot from a live cd. partition up the sata how you want it. I normally use 1G /boot 20G / rest for lvm lv 1G /var/log/ 10-30G /tmp <memsize> swap I would use rsync to copy between ide and sata something like rsync -avHSz /tmp/mountedhda /tmp/mountedsata/ you will need to change /etc/fstab (on sata) to /dev/sd<?> - I would recommend change to LABEL's or UUID so that this problem of changing device name is not a problem. use tune2fs -l to set a label so presuming sda2 is your / fs tune2fs -L / /dev/sda2 tune2fs -L /boot /dev/sda1 then fstab can look like LABEL=/ / ext3 errors=remount-ro,noatime,nodiratime 0 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 0 0 once that is done, you will need to remake you initrd mkinitd (in the live cd you will need to chroot onto the sata rootfs and mount /boot) and you will need to install grub (also in the chroot). that should give you a bootable system. If you run into problems, if you have grub working it will drop into a shell (busybox) if it can't find the rootfs, give it time the timeout is fairly long. then you can look around and see what is wrong. If possible mount the rootfs (you will have to check the location to mount it to) and then ctrl-D (exit) out and initrd should continue on to your system, where you can fix the problem permanently and re run mkinitrd A > > After cloning the drive, in order to boot properly, besides adjusting "/ > etc/fstab" do not forget to edit the corresponding GRUB entries located > at "/boot/grub/menu.lst". > > They have also to point to the right (new) device. > > Greetings, > -- "It's about past seven in the evening here so we're actually in different time lines." - George W. Bush 01/01/2001 congratulating newly elected Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Washington, D.C.
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