drive change

[Rick Bowers]

At 2/3/2007 10:15 PM, you wrote:
>On Saturday 03 February 2007 21:11, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > I have a noisy hda drive, making a whining sound. I have set it to spin
> > down in a few seconds to quite it, but would like to remove it. My linux
> > install is on hdb, but the mbr is on hda, which contains an old windows
> > install and some backup partitions. Can I remove hda, plug hdb in as
> > hda, reinstall grub, edit /etc/fstab  and reboot? Or is this just
> > wishful thinking? Or reinstall grub to hdb prior to switching drives?
> > or.... ?  just swap and reinstall?
>
>Not a problem.  You will also need to reconfig grub (not just install it)
>since it will see the drive as (hd0) instead of (hd1) assuming a
>standard /boot/grub/device.map
>
>You might try installing grub on the hard drive before swapping, but don't
>burn much time on it.  You will tell GRUB where the /boot/grub/* is and it
>will hard-code that into the bootloader portion of grub... and it will look
>for it on hdb...  I love having my Kubuntu install CD be a live-CD style...
>it let's be do this without reinstalling or using Knoppix (which, being a
>different distro, isn't quite as nice)

Couldn't you also get a new drive and dd the old contents to the new, 
remove the old and put the new in its' place, and reboot?

That is, assuming you want to save the original contents.

~Rick

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