On 03/04/16 17:10, John Pilkington wrote: >> > > I've had an interesting week with a new 3TB drive and a family box that has > been running MS Vista for years. I disconnected the Windows HD 'for safety' > and installed kubuntu from the live DVD, with few problems until I tried a > 'real' boot, which failed. Eventually I installed buntu 14 with grub > alongside Vista on the original HD, and also have buntu 16 beta on the new > one; at present they will all boot and run. Don't know if SL7 would do the > same. But the USB drive exploit looks handy.
This should work on the majority of all Linux distributions, at least if you use UUID for the /boot partitionsi. Use of LVM can also simplify mounting the root parition (/) and so on - unless you use UUID for those mount points too. I've booted several old Linux installations from hardrives put into a USB closure. I haven't tried to do that with Windows though, that might work too - but somehow I imagine it will freak out at some point where drive letters won't match properly. To get an overview you can run 'blkid' or 'lsblk -o NAME,UUID' on your system to see all devices and their unique UUID. These tools are also valuable when you need to modify /etc/crypttab manually. -- kind regards, David Sommerseth
