On Wednesday December 23 2009 19:49:27 TNWestTex wrote: > 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 > thanks I am using GRUB 0.97 and apparently the option root=UUID=... is not supported or maybe I am doing something wrong. this is my grub.conf: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- hiddenmenu default 0 timeout 2 title Fedora (2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset rhgb quiet vga=0x318 initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE.img title Fedora (2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset rhgb quiet vga=0x318 initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i686.PAE.img title Fedora (2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i686.PAE) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup- lv_root nomodeset rhgb quiet vga=0x318 initrd /initrd-2.6.29.6-217.2.8.fc11.i686.PAE.img title FC11 test root=UUID=175472b3-e4e5-4208-beeb-56eec49c20aa kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset rhgb quiet vga=0x318 initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE.img title FC11 usb-clone root=UUID=175472b3-e4e5-4208-beeb-56eec49c20aa kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE ro root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root nomodeset rhgb quiet vga=0x318 initrd /initrd-2.6.30.9-96.fc11.i686.PAE.img ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- one more problem I now have, the UUID are not unique and the clone drive partitions has the same UUID's as their relative source partitions. thanks again for your help YB. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
