[ale] help, windows 7 boot error

[philip at turmel.org (Phil Turmel)]

On 01/26/2015 12:15 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On 01/26/2015 11:39 AM, Phil Turmel wrote:
>> Exactly.
>>
>> Boot from a rescue cd or thumb drive (I use the one from
>> sysrescuecd.org) and use its 'dd' to duplicate the old drive to the new
>> one.  Then boot the new drive.  It won't see the new space yet, but you
>> can verify all the normal functionality.
>>
>> Then you can resize the partition(s) using your favorite tool to gain
>> access to the new space.  Or create another partition in the new space
>> that'll get its own drive letter in Windows.
>>
>> Phil
> that sounds... wonderful except... that would put my old grub menu in,
> with all the wrong linux kernels...
> my current / and /home are on sdb, so it wouldn't affect any  of those
> partitions.. right now all I have on that drive are mostly new & empty
> partitions, except for /home2 that is a backup of /home.. but that gets
> rsynced every night. why do I have to boot from a rescue CD? I am
> running on /= /dev/sdb6 and /home =/dev/sdb4 .. I can unmount anything
> with /dev/sda*... and mount the old drive USB.. do the dd deed..mmmm
> then grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg then grub2-install /dev/sda.

I missed the bit about the third drive.  Yes, if /dev/sda and the old
drive can be completed unmounted in your current booted system, no
reason not to do it as you just described.

Phil