[Gllug] Moving System to a new Disk - checking out my plan...

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On 2 Jul 2007, Ken Smith stated:
> I manually changed the init script in the initrd and all is well......
>
> And I learned a fair bit more about the fine details of the boot 
> process.....

Note that initrds are obsolete, so you may have learned out-of-date
stuff... the recommended approach these days is to use an initramfs,
which is sort of the same only different (among other things the
necessary stuff can be built into the kernel image as part of the kernel
build process, so the kernel is completely self-contained again).

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