[mdlug] Completely replacing Windows XP Pro with Linux!

[Aaron Kulkis]

Jonathan Billings wrote:
> 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.
>

Volume labels are completely under your control

You can make BOOT_UBUNTU and BOOT_SUSE, for example, each one
being the corresponding /boot filesystem.