Re: swapping master & slave HDs: what to change? (solved - pls comment!)
hi ya
On 2 Oct 2004, SpamHog wrote:
to swap disks ...
== make sure you have a boot floppy and a boot cd
== that can boot into that disk you are currently using
/dev/hda --> /dev/hdb
change hda->hdb in /etc/fstab
change hda->hdb in /etc/lilo.conf
-- or --
change hd0 to hd1 in /boot/grub/menu.list
- boot the disk after its been physiclly swapped on the cables ...
lilo# vmlinuz root=/dev/hda ( the new hda -- was prev hdb )
same for editing the grub cmd line to chanage root=/dev/hda
- any mbr info ( including floppy, cd, .. ) can boot into the rootfs
of the new swapped disk
- once its boot ... run lilo ...
- reboot again and now you dont need the other boot media
( cd, floppy or old hda to boot the new hda )
- or do it the hard way ..
chroot /mnt/new-swapped lilo --> leads to loads of fun
( you probably will still want a boot media to rescue
( the box if the new swapped disk doesnt boot
other stuff is too much work
> * MBR or whole boot sector:
> If you use Lilo, you just need the boot record (first 512 bytes). If
> you use another bootloader like GRUB, you'd better backup the whoe 1st
> SECTOR, i.e. the first 64 records. GRUB stores the so called "stage
> 1.5" in trat area. GAG puts code there too.
>
> * Just the MBR:
> dd count=1 bs=512 if=/dev/hda of=<path><filename>
if of is the new target disk, it will wipe out your partition table of
your new disk ( bs=446 or bs=448 is better ) if you want to preserve
the partitions on the target disk
c ya
alvin
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