[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Jonathan Billings]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 11:06:37PM -0400, Aaron Kulkis wrote:
> >On Mon, 2014-07-21 at 08:09 -0400, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> >
> >>In fact, the only place I got caught up was that I had to create a
> >>new /boot on the new disk and the uuid was hard-coded in the GRUB2
> >>config (I had remembered to change the UUID in the fstab but not
> >>regenerate the bootloader).
> 
> This is why you boot and mount by VOLUME label.

Fedora (and CentOS7) encode the UUID of the boot volume into the
grub2 configuration.  I had no direct interference on that part, it's
just something to realize next time one formats /boot.

Booting using a volume label is fine if you only have one distro
installed, but surprisingly enough, it's quite easy to accidentally
create two /boot volumes, so UUID it is.

-- 
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>