HD to SSD question.

[Michael D. Setzer II]

On 18 Aug 2013 at 22:57, Erik P. Olsen wrote:

Date sent:      	Sun, 18 Aug 2013 22:57:09 +0200
From:           	"Erik P. Olsen" <epodata at gmail.com>
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> I plan to swap the HD on my laptop with an SSD of same size. Will it
> work OK if I dd the HD to an external HD, swap the HD with the SSD and
> dd the contents back to the SSD? I believe I can use knoppix to the
> process.
> 

As another response has already stated make sure the SSD disk 
is as large or larger, just because they say are the same size may 
be slightly different. 

The only other issue that might cause an issue if the SSD disk 
requires any driver that isn't in the initrd. Long ago, I changed a 
machine from IDE to SATA disk, and the disk would boot since 
the SATA controller wasn't in the original initrd.  Don't think that 
would be an issue here, since it is the same controller.

I'm the maintainer of the G4L project, which also has options to 
backup and/or clone disks. I even add it to my grub boot menu to 
be able to image without need of a live cd. 

I've added it to the grub by using 40_custom
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
# This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries.  
Simply type the
# menu entries you want to add after this comment.  Be careful 
not to change
# the 'exec tail' line above.
menuentry G4L {
	linux /bz3x10.7 ramdisk_size=131072 root=/dev/ram0 
telnetd=yes
	initrd /ramdisk.lzma
}

The kernel file and ramdisk.lzma file are also copied to the boot 
directory. 



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