[ale] a disk is just a disk?

[Jerry Yu]

 u r correct, Geoffrey. a disk is just a disk. The box booted up to Linux
just fine, with the EIDE disk replaced in-place.

It was peculiar that the grub loading is rather slow. 15s before it says
'GRUB loading stage 1.5', then another 15s bfore it  says 'loading GRUB'.
Once I got to  the GRUB boot menu, everything seems to normal speed.

On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
wrote:

> Jerry Yu wrote:
> > I used gparted live cd to copy/resize a small EIDE disk (60G) to a
> bigger
> > EIDE disk (120G).  The new disk was in an external USB enclosure.
> > gparted saw 60G as hda and 120G as sdb. It successfully copied & grew
> all
> > five partitions (4 linux ext3 & 1 fat32).
> >
> > Now I am ready to take this EIDE disk out of the USB enclosure & to
> replace
> > the smaller EIDE disk. / & MBR  & GRUB is on a separate SATA disk (sda)
> >
> > would the net changes on the new disk differ, somehow,  when parted did
> all
> > its magic thinking it handled a SCSI disk instead of a EIDE disk?
>
> I don't think gparted has anything to do with that.  Once you put the
> drive in the computer, boot it with gparted and the partitions will no
> longer show up as scsi.
>
> I would expect that swaping eide for eide will permit you to simply boot
> afterwards, as long as you're correct in that mbr/grub is on a separate
> drive.
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
>
> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
>  - Benjamin Franklin
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20080418/b516f1a7/attachment.html