SMART warns Boot Drive will Fail

[Madison Kelly]

Stephen wrote:
> So I get the message when booting this evening.
> 
> All my data directories are on other drives, /VAR, /USR, /HOME
> 
> What is the least painful way to switch to a new boot drive.
> 
> I use Ubunto.
> 
> Thanks!
> Stephen
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Assuming you have other partitions to use, and that you are using grub, 
edit: '/boot/grub/menu.lst'. Copy the entry you normally use (don't 
edit, in case there are problems) and change the 'root	(0,0)' line (and 
possible the 'kernel' line if needed) to point to the new disk. If you 
need to write the MBR on the new disk I *think* you need to use 'fdisk' 
to set the bootable flag on the new '/boot' partition, but I might be 
wrong. I haven't done this myself and am largely guessing.

This is assuming you have already duplicated your partitions onto the 
new drive. Also, you might want to read 'man grub' and 'man fdisk' for 
more info, given the cost of "doing it wrong".

Maybe someone here has experience doing this and can offer sounder advice?

Madi
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