On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 18:01, Colin J Thomson wrote: > On Wednesday 13 Oct 2004 23:36, Jeff Vian wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-10-13 at 08:29, Colin J Thomson wrote: > > > Following up from my "Drive Upgrade questions" post: > > > > > > I finally installed my new SATA drive and with a bit work I can see the > > > drive with "dmesg". It was just a case of probing the correct driver > > > and adding it to my rc.local, the Drive is seen as a SCSI (sda) > > > I guess thats what I get for running a custom kernel (a bit more work > > > to do) :) > > > > > > I have followed the threads on "ghosting" a drive but I dont feel very > > > comfortable just yet trying it, the plan of action is ghost my working > > > fC2 system (hda) to the new SATA drive (sda) and Boot from the SATA > > > drive. > > > > > > The plan of action is to boot up from the FC2 CD in rescue mode and use > > > DD, and issue this command: > > > > > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hde > > > > This is NOT a good plan. > > Ok, > > > The copy will have the exact same partition table/geometry/labels/etc as > > the original. It will likely damage the destination drive unless the > > destination is exactly the same as the original ( make/model/ CHS/etc.) > > Good point, > I also should of mentioned in my original post that the new SATA drive is > twice the size of the current one.. > > > You can create the partitons on the new drive then copy data over, > > Yes this is an option as well, and then I guess create a new MBR, I am just > a little nervous of doing that. Regardless of the method you use, you will likely have to redo the MBR. A new drive, new mapping of the partitions, etc. UNLESS you leave the original drive in and use it's MBR to boot. As I understand it, a SATA drive is not designated as hda when it is seen by Linux. -- booting from a different root device means a change in grub.conf and in the MBR However, the change in the grub configuration and the MBR is simple in comparison to the change in the physical device. > > > or use g4u to do what you want. > > > > for info see http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ > > Excellent! I will have a look at that site tommorow. > > Cheers, > > Colin > > -- > Fedora Core 2, Custom Built Kernel 2.6.8.1 > KDE-Redhat-3.3.1-0.2.2.kde > Registered Linux user number 342953
