Ubuntu Installation :: Mounting "/" To Non Bootable Device?
Mar 5, 2011
- Old laptop with only PATA
- Bought a PCMCIA ESATA card and a SATA SSD in an external enclosure
- Bios is too old to support booting from the PCMCIA device
I bought an SSD to speed things up a little, but having some issues.
Since I can not boot from the SSD, I thought I'd load the kernel from the old PATA disc and then mount / to the SSD.
== What i've tried: ==
(sda = internal pata)
(sdb = external ssd)
1. Installed ubuntu to sda with seperate paritions for /boot /var /srv and /
moyd@A:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9 4804736 2012760 2547908 45% /
none 508764 376 508388 1% /dev
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sr0?
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