Re: Moving root fs to sata

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> I have a wandboard quad, and I'd like to move the root filesystem to a sata drive.  I have the drive connected and formatted, and I copied all of "/" to a partition on the sata drive.

For the wandboard you can actually have the entire OS on SATA. The
only thing that needs to be on a SD card is U-Boot.

So if you take a new image and DD it out to the sata device, then just
dd out the U-Boot to a mSD card it should just all boot.

> Now the question is "where do I need to change the UUID to match that of the new partition".
>
> I know I need to change /etc/fstab, /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf and perhaps /boot/grub/grub.conf, but do I also have to regenerate the initramfs images, and if so, what command would I use so they contain the correct UUID and drivers?
>
> If I need to rebuild the initramfs, that would be a bit of a chicken and egg problem, because I would not be able to boot from the sata drive until I rebuilt it, but if I rebuilt it while running from the SD card, I'd guess the rebuilt initramfs would still reference the SD card.
>
>         Steve
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