Re: An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an existing one

[Philip Rhoades]

Timothy,


>  Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2015 10:36:36 +0100
>  From: Timothy Murphy <gayleard(a)eircom.net&gt;
>  To: users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  Subject: Re: An Exercise: Manually creating a new boot disk from an
>  	existing	one
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>  
>  Philip Rhoades wrote:
>  
> > I am interested to see if it is possible to boot on an existing disk -
> > say /dev/sda ("A") - and then manually create everything required on a
> > second disk - /dev/sdb ("B") eg:
> > 
> > - create the partition table and partitions on B
> > 
> > - dd the existing boot track(s) from A to a file and then dd that to B 
> > -
> > or create it from scratch somehow?
> > 
> > - rsync the the first level directories into the appropriate places on
> > the new drive and partitions (maybe by temporarily booting on a Live 
> > USB
> > so we are not copying from a running system?)
> > 
> > If this is possible, what else would need to be done on B so that when
> > drive A is removed, the remaining B (the new "A") drive will be able 
> > to
> > boot and run normally?
>  
>  
>  Presumably you would have to (at least)
>  1. Correct /etc/fstab
>  2. Install grub on second disk 

Ah yes, of course . . I might give it a go . .

Thanks!

Phil.
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