Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> writes: > It has been my practice when upgrading between Debian releases to make > bootable copies of the OS partitions on my hard drive so that if things > go badly wrong I still have a bootable system.
How did you make such copies? > This wirked fine with LILO and GRUB 1, where I was in control of > configuratino files and could explicitly specifiy which root partitions > went with which boot partitions/ > > But when installing grub2 to an MBR. all this is automated. It looks > around on the available disks and figures out shoch partition goes with > which. > > Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to /etc/fstab) I > have two nearly identical sets of partitions, so it may be tricky to tell > them apart. Is grub2 clever enough to figure it all out anyway? And > what data does it use to this end? (so I can make sure it's right!) Are you referring to grub figuring it out when booting or to grub figuring it out while it's being installed? (In any case, I don't know any of the answers ...) There needs to be a way for grub to figure out where to look for its configuration. Perhaps this information is stored in the MBR when installing grub. In that case, you would have a problem when grub cannot find its configuration there anymore (like because the partitioning has changed) and maybe a problem if it finds the wrong configuration. -- Debian testing amd64 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
