[Wylug-help] Imaging from PATA to SATA

[James Holden]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:59:59PM +0000, RichardA wrote:
> The subject says it all. If I image (using dd) an OS on an old-style IDE
> disk onto a SATA2 disk, will it boot? Perhaps if I edit fstab? Or am I
> dreaming?

Yes, no reason why not.

You might need to fiddle the fstab depending on what the new drive shows
up as and how the drives are enumerated.

This may not be determined until the old drive is removed.

james

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