[Wylug-help] Imaging from PATA to SATA

[RichardA]

> 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.

I was thinking that the device would change from hda to sda, but
they're all sda now, aren't they? I think a kernel upgrade changed all
disks to use the scsi disk infrastructure.

It's a moot point for now, as I've just broken lirc... AGAIN!