Re: Moved harddisk

[Bill Leach <bleach@bellsouth.net>]

Yes, the first part of what you have done should be correct for a floppy
boot system.  The entries in /etc/fstab do HAVE to reference the correct
device/partitions.

If you are using lilo on the boot floppy then that has to be corrected
for the new location also.


Hunter H Marshall wrote:
> 
> I have a 1.2.8 system that I boot from floppy. I
> moved the harddrive from (effectively) /dev/hda to
> /dev/hdb. I then used rdev to change the boot
> device and the swap device to their hdb
> counterparts. Should that have been sufficient?
> 
> Is there a primary/secondary IDE issue (if I'm
> saying that right)? What about the /etc/fstab
> which reference /dev/hda?
> 
> Thanks
> 
>         hunter

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-bill
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