Re: Added a new SCSI disk, hda became hdb
* Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>:
> 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.
I did that now. WOrks OK.
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