[Gllug] Cloning only one of two partitions & how necessary is swapspace...

[John Hearns]

You could attach the disk to your existing system, clone it as you say,
mount it, mount /proc  then chroot into it and run grub-install (or
whatever your favourite bootloader is)

Caveats:
   you'll have to look at /dev/disk/by-id  device naming in grub/menu,

   make sure you have an initrd containing the drivers for your SSD
(I'd guess this is OK anyway)

   I have memories of trying this technique once (*) and it ending in
tears... as I recall grub couldn't find the relevant disk when I was
in the chroot. Sorry - can't remember how I dug myself out of that
hole.
(*) Not the same situation - system was either booted from Knoppix or
from PXE and I was trying to clone in a new hard drive - maybe that's
why it could not find the disk in a chroot as the distro would be
different
-- 
Gllug mailing list  -  Gllug at gllug.org.uk
http://lists.gllug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug