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Re: how to make hda become hdb?



On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 08:19:57 +0100 (CET),
ernst wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2002, Nick Hastings wrote:
> 
> > * levi.waldron@utoronto.ca <levi.waldron@utoronto.ca> [021129 16:53]:
> > >
> > > I have debian installed on /dev/hda, how can I switch this hard drive to
> > > become /dev/hdb?
> >
> >    I'm anything but a hardware expert, but I suspect you need to
> > switch the ide cables on each disk.
> 
> I scould be as easy as that, but you also need to change the jumpers of
> that hd's role is change. And you scould also check what kind if patrition
> you got, primary, logic. Anyway, take a backup just in case....
> 
> And you probably want to change lilo.

I suppose you mean, change it to a better bootooader: grub ;-).



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