Thread: grub and rsync

dr exercise
backed-up ubuntu[orig] on /dev/sda9 exthd using rsync
restored ubuntu[bu] exthd new partition on /dev/sda8
modified fstab of ubuntu[bu] on /dev/sda8 point sda8
ran grub-update on ubuntu[control] /dev/sda7
have 3 instances of ubuntu[control, orig, bu]. however, when choose sda8[bu], sda9[orig] ubuntu instance loaded.

else needs modified on ubuntu[bu] /dev/sda8 ?

both grub & fstab have entries partitions, device, label, or uuid. need update grub. if booting 1 install should let directly boot other installs.

post see entire configuration. new test version of boot script try. download script directly. post results.txt inside code tags. copy & highlight contents of script , click on # in edit panel above post auto add code tags.

code:

wget -o bootinfoscript 'http://bootinfoscript.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=bootinfoscript/bootinfoscript;a=blob_plain;f=bootinfoscript;hb=head'  chmod a+x bootinfoscript  sudo bash bootinfoscript

standard version:
boot info script courtesy of forum members meierfra & gert hulselmans
page instructions , download:
http://bootinfoscript.sourceforge.net/
paste contents of results.txt in new reply, highlight entire file , click on # in edit panel(code tags) make easier read.
or can generate tags first pressing # icon in new reply edit toolbar , paste contents between generated [ code] paste here [ /code] tags.
v60 has improved formating , requires code tags make legible. new version zip file have extract .sh run.
install these before running script:
sudo apt-get install gawk
sudo apt-get install xz-utils

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