Re: Added a new SCSI disk, hda became hdb
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:05:01PM +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> [del]
> >The old disk has ID 6, and I can do whatever I want, once I add the new
> >disk, I cannot boot, since the kernel doesn't find it's rootfs on hda
> >-- since it's hdb now.
> >
> >How can I add a new physical disk as hdb ?
>
> Jumpering the old disk to ID 0 would do the trick, if the controler is
> on ID 7, which is often the case.
This will work if both old and new disks are on the same SCSI bus.
If they are not, give up on renaming and modify the boot parameter
"root=" to point to the new disk. Then fixup /etc/fstab and
/etc/palo.conf to point to the new name and reboot.
grant
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