Will not boot after Disk upgrade from hda to sda

[John Summerfield]

Paul Ward wrote:
> I did a quick hack that allowed me to boot up in a relitively stable
> enviroment with some problems regarding keys I am guessiing this is
> the keys that generate on first login, that get used to check
> packages.
> 
> I built a FC6 PC using a single partion and no swap, then using a
> recovery CD rsync'd the / partition over the top of the install. I did
> not sync the /boot, this worked and proved the sata drive and cards
> are compatible. I am going to clone the partition to a backup, re
> clone the original disk on to the sata and copy the menu.lst,
> device.map and fstab with minor modification back.
> 
> I am hoping this will work, I may need to reinstall grub but that will
> not be a problem.
> 
> Any thoughts on if this will work?
>

test from the grub command line, finding it's idea of what drive is what 
is a good start.

reinstalling grub may prove a good idea, it can reconstruct the device map.


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John

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