Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

>
> "Tom F." <fur_tom502@earthlink.nospam.net> wrote in message

>> You don't really have to reinstall SuSE. Linux doesn't care where it
>> resides. After you are done with the disks, just boot up SuSE and fix
>> grub with YaST. That should be all you need to do.
>> Tom F.
>
> It cares: if the grub, /etc/fstab and the swap locations point to
> /dev/hda, it won't boot. I tried doing this with SuSE and found that they
> broke grub-install rather thoroughly, which sent me fairly psychotic one
> evening.
>
> It should be possible to rescue the SuSE with an installation CD or, for
> SuSE 9.2, an installation DVD in this case.
Sure. I didn't mean to imply grub wouldn't need to be reconfigured.
Certainly it must be. I'm just saying, as a point of general philosophy and
functionality _linux_ (including the whole distribution) doesn't care where
it resides.

Absolutely, the boot loader cares where it is and must be set up correctly,
but that's just par for the course. In older hardware, the kernel had to be
on a primary partition, but I don't even think that's true anymore. Though
I always make a separate /boot primary partition anyway.
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Tom F.
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