From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: Moving Hard Drive Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 11:50:49 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <4008D441.6090009@sancharnet.in> References: <20040117031622.B31C01C900@heisspf> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Peter wrote: >I can tell the floppy to boot into hda* and in SlackWare (there is the SW) I >have anyhow a bootable live rescue disc. > >Regards > > Since you are on lilo , it would be easier to type on the lilo prompt root=/dev/hda(something - your root partiton) for it to boot thru instaed of all the fuss with boot disks and rescue cds . then edit fstab and lilo.conf Joy > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > A life without purpose is like a bird that never learnt to fly....... > I am the bird that regularly flies Lufthansa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs