On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 3:33 AM, Dennis Gallien
On Monday, January 02, 2012 06:48 AM John Bennett wrote:
Trying to move a 12.1 x64 install from one drive (1.5tb SATA existing) to the other (2tb SATA new). Have copied the partitions to the new drive (using GParted, suse partition now sdb4 instead of sdb3 - created extended partition which was named sdb3... sdb1+2 are windows partitions) Going to leave both disks in the PC. Questions: If I change the boot disk order in the BIOS, does this change the reference to the disks? ie does the new disk change from (1) to (0) in the device.map file? What files do I need to edit in grub (menu.lst, grub.conf, device.map) How do I install grub in the mbr/partition boot record? Have tried googling this, but can't find an answer for my particular prob... Thanks, John.
John, I can provide an alternative approach to Felix's reply, but whatever method you use you need to tell us what you are doing with the first drive, i.e., is your Windows "C:" partition on that drive and are you setting the machine up to primarily boot Windows and you want to boot openSUSE from there? Or do you want to have openSUSE's grub be the primary boot loader and use it to boot Windows on the first drive? Or are you using a bios on-the-fly boot device selection feature and want to boot off both drives? Or . . . ? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Thanks, Dennis. What I am doing is 'moving' all OS (ie boot stuff) to the new drive, with the intention that once it is all working I will clean the OS stuff off the 'old' drive, and this will become mainly data. My primary OS is opensuse, and only very rarely boot windows/ubuntu. First 2 partitions are Windows7 (boot and OS), 3rd partition is Opensuse 12.1 x64, and somewhere behind that (in an extended partition) is Ubuntu and/or anything else. All booted by the 12.1 default grub.... Thanks, John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org