Re: Advice: making the move to all-SCSI
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On Tuesday 09 March 2004 04:52 am, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I have a machine that currently has an IDE disk as the boot and /
> disk, and everything else is SCSI. I would like to convert this to an
> all-SCSI machine, for performance, cleanliness, and fun. I'm writing
> for advice on how to do this.
>
> The kernel (2.4.24) is compiled with scsi and the necessary items so
> it should be able to boot from a SCSI disk. My thought is to do
> this:
>
> - Install the new SCSI drive
> - Mount partitions as necessary and move files to their new locations
> (probably using tar cf - . | (cd /newdrive ; tar xf - ))
> - Edit lilo.conf
> - lilo
> - power down
> - Remove IDE drive
> - Cross fingers
> - Reboot
>
> My concern is with lilo. How do I tell it to install in the SCSI
> disk's MBR, not the current boot disk? In the past, it seems like
> I've had trouble with that process.
>
> Any advice welcome - thanks.
>
In my bios I can specify the boot device, scsi or atapi. Also install
lilo on the first scsi disk, sda, and tell lilo what the root partition
is..sda(x)
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Greg Madden
Debian GNU/Linux
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