Re: What is the best way to upgrade a drive?



Vlad_Inhaler wrote:
Where this falls down is with the bootable partition. I have to
fiddle around a bit to get the system to boot again. My preferred
method was always to use lilo and point it temporarily at the new
disc, other possibilities are to set up a floppy disc or boot from CD/
DVD and fix things that way. My /boot and my / partition are both on /
dev/hda and I am not even sure which is the critical one.

Just point at it with YaST. Can work for bot Lilo and Grub. The during
reboot, select that and later set the default to whatever you desire.

houghi
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