Transfer F7 partition to a new hard disk

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 21 16:23:31 UTC 2007


Thanks to all. I have given up in favor of doing a clean installation.

Could someone please tell me where from one could get a F7
installation dvd with a recent kernel?

Paul


On 10/21/07, Jonathan Dieter <jdieter at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 23:15 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> > Now I have all my F7 partition copied in a partition in the new disk.
> > Grub is installed in the new disk. However, I always get booted in the
> > F7 partition in the old disk. Any ideas?
> >
> > Paul
> >
>
> If you want the new partition to be the bootable one, you need to use
> e2label to give it whatever the label was of the original partition, and
> then remove the label of the original partition.
>
> The other thing you may want to check would be /boot/grub/device.map.
> Make sure the grub devices match the linux devices, and make sure
> that /etc/grub.conf is pointing to the right device.
>
> Jonathan
>
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