Re: floppy boot to changed /dev/hdax

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

>   I am trying to add a logical partition for anonther OS but
> my linux boot disk expects my swap and root partitions to be
> in the same spot.
> 
> Linux root and swap are hda7 and hda8 respectively. I create
> a new hda7 that changes the linux root and swap devices to
> be hda8 and hda9 respectively.
> 
> I can add the boot option: linux root=3D/dev/hda8 but I can't
> get it to recognize that the swap partition is moved.
> 
> I've tried using rdev and rdev -s on the floppy, and these
> report the correct devices after the change, but the floppy's
> behavior does not change.
> 
> I've played with the fstab file also.
> 
> Anybody know how to do this?

Are you sure the partition numbers and types are the same when you boot
your system?  I've seen some pretty weird things after modification of a
partitiont able.  What do you see when you boot the system and type
`fdisk -l' as root?

Eric