Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: > Jesús J. Guerrero Botella wrote: >> 2010/8/27 J. Roeleveld<jo...@antarean.org>: >> >>> On Friday 27 August 2010 09:49:41 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>>> On 08/27/2010 10:37 AM, Dale wrote: >>>> >>>>> My theory is something like this: hda will become sda; hdb will become >>>>> sdb; hdc will become sdc; hdd will become sdd; and sda will become sde. >>>>> Would that be a logical expectation? >>>>> >>>> I'd say sda will stay as is, hda will become sdb, and so forth. >>>> >> This entirely depends on the way your BIOS orders your drivers, as far >> as I know. It could be either way. But, we all know how flexible grub >> is. You can just use TAB to autocomplete and try. All you need to boot >> is your root fs, after that fdisk -l will reveal all the info you >> need. fstab is another story, that might cost you an extra reboot into >> a livecd to fix it. > > Another thing that I hadn't thought of, grub. I didn't even think > about grub would have to be edited. That would have been interesting > when I tried to boot up.
You just need to feed linux with the right parameters, so it finds the root filesystem. Grub id's themselves should remain the same, I suppose. Also, as GRUB allows you to edit commandlines, you can do this by trial and error (but a good initial guess is still worth it). -- Nuno J. Silva gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg
