Bugzilla from yehielb@xxxxxxx wrote: > > hello, > > I have been trying to look over many solutions and tutorials with no luck. > my goal was and still is, to clone my internal 40GB hard-drive which > contain > fc11 on to my external usb-hard-drive 500GB. > aftar many tutorials I finally used Clonezilla. > that worked great and the hdd is cloned. > the problem is that the boot configurations are the same, and so when I > boot > from the usb-hdd I actually run from the internal hdd. > and now for the question. > since this usb-drive is meant to be able to boot on every computer, > I can I config grub to boot (run) the OS in the same drive it is being > loaded > from? > > for example: > my current setup is that the fc11 internal drive is sdb and the usb-hdd is > sde > and the same grub is (clone) on both drives. > > A problem is that many systems switch the order of the drive assignments on the boot from the USB drive. The /boot/grub/device.map file has to reflect what the system is doing. This order is passed to grub with the line root (hdX,n) in /boot/grub/grub.conf where X is the drive and n is the partition number of the partition with /boot. If you run in a root terminal session the commands fdisk -l to see exactly what the device names are. Then run vol_id -u /dev/sdXn Where X is the drive and n is the partition number. You will get the UUID for the partitions. You can then edit /boot/grub/grub.conf and make the kernel line specify explicitly the partitions you want to use with the syntax root=UUID=....... An additional complication is that some utilities get confused when there are multiple drive partitions with the same label. Running from the internal drive without the usb drive, you can use e2label to change the labels on the internal drive. If you are still having trouble, post the output from fdisk -l, UUIDs and your grub.conf file for more help. Robert McBroom -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/grub-configuration%2C-boot.-tp26902896p26905241.html Sent from the Fedora List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
