From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: joy Subject: Re: Moving Hard Drive Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:46:37 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <400BBC95.1020808@sancharnet.in> References: <20040119071411.35BEF1C902@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: >>Peter wrote: >> >> >>>Is it correct then that before doing the switch I will have to change in >>>/etc/fstab and lilo.conf all what is labeled hdc to hda? >>>Boot initially >>>from a floppy into SLackWare run lilo and I should be set with the new drive >>>as master. >>> >>> > >gracecott@sancharnet.in said: > > > >>Since you are on lilo, it would be easier to type on the lilo prompt >> >> > >Since hdc was moved to hda there is initially no more MBR before I run lilo. > >Therefore what Peter wrote above correctly replaced the old 5 Gb >HD with the new 20 Gb HD as Master. > > > > Yes, I got the catch. thanks for enlightening me about the matter. But I have a doubt.... As pa3gcu said couldn't you use the bios' boot option to boot thru the other drive and since it's lilo.conf is pointing to hdc, could'nt you then pass the root= parameter? - 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