Another old SCSI request
Hello, A few months ago I asked on this list if anyone had any older SCSI gear. I received some responses and am now sorted on that front. However now I am on the look-out for some older SCSI differential (HVD) equipment. Either a hard disk or a tape drive would be perfect, but failing that I'd accept any HVD device at all. Does anyone have any of these floating around? Please contact me off-list if you do. I hope this isn't too far off topic - it peripherally relates to Linux via the Linux-based SCSI device we are developing. Regards, Andre
Re: Another old SCSI request
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 13:12 +1200, Andre Renaud wrote: Hello, A few months ago I asked on this list if anyone had any older SCSI gear. I received some responses and am now sorted on that front. However now I am on the look-out for some older SCSI differential (HVD) equipment. Either a hard disk or a tape drive would be perfect, but failing that I'd accept any HVD device at all. Does anyone have any of these floating around? Please contact me off-list if you do. I hope this isn't too far off topic - it peripherally relates to Linux via the Linux-based SCSI device we are developing. Regards, Andre I've got some low voltage diff stuff lying around that may or may not still work... Thanks for the offer Steve, but unfortunately I need the older high-voltage differential equipment. Thanks, Andre
Old SCSI Hard-disk wanted
Hi, Does anyone have an older SCSI hard disk (SCSI-2 preferrably). One of the ones with a 50-way IDC connector (Similar to the 40-way parallel IDE connectors prior to SATA). I'm more than happy to pay for it. I've tried to find them on trademe, but they are just too old for people to bother I think. On a linux related front, we need this to test our Linux based SCSI device. Please contact me off-list. Regards, Andre
Re: Ubuntu CDs In the CBD
I can probably get you the 6.06 CDs if you want - we're in the PriceWaterhouse Coopers building, on Armagh St. Andre Ben Devine wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if anyone had any Ubuntu CDs in the CBD area. I would be willing to swap a dollar or two for it. Cheers --Ben Devine -- Bluewater Systems Ltd - ARM Technology Solutions Centre Andre Renaud Bluewater Systems Ltd Phone: +64 3 3779127 (Aus 1 800 148 751)Level 17, 119 Armagh St Fax: +64 3 3779135PO Box 13889 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christchurch Web: http://www.bluewatersys.com New Zealand
Re: help desk system for gentoo
If you're looking for a simple bug tracking system, try out mantis http://www.mantisbt.org/. I don't thinkg it does time tracking, but it does all the other stuff (including ldap authentication), and is certainly very easy to setup. Andre On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 14:19 +1200, Maurice Butler wrote: Hi, I have just started managing a network for a large organisation that is about to get bigger. All ready running Linux, Mac (os x), windoze. Currently the IT request are written into an exercise book - when it can be found. I would like something like bugzilla to track the request, provide feedback to users and track time spent servicing request etc. Essential that authentication be able to tie into ldap so users logged on the network can use the system transparently. Thanks Maurice -- Bluewater Systems Ltd - ARM Technology Solutions Centre Andre Renaud Bluewater Systems Ltd Phone: +64 3 3779127 (Aus 1 800 148 751)Level 17, 119 Armagh St Fax: +64 3 3779135PO Box 13889 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christchurch Web: http://www.bluewatersys.com New Zealand signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Asterisk PBX
I've used Asterisk a bit, and it certainly seems very suitable for small/medium businesses with a handful of phone lines. The VOIP phones are a little bit pricy, but you can get quite nice ones for around the $150 mark. The FXO devices are around the $30US mark. The drawback is probably the Telecom approved aspect - the FXO cards I brought were not approved, so can't be used on Telecom networks (although apparently can be used with Clear, which is what we do). They will actually work fine, but nobody has paid for the Telecom approval (there may be something in them that is out of spec, but I can't find the reference to it at the moment). Andre On Mon, 2005-06-27 at 12:25 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: I am toying with the idea of not buying into a new PBX system for the office. Presently I am sharing premises with a bigger business, the present PBX is theirs and thay are looking to replace it at enormous (it seems to me) cost. I have three telecom lines, one is for fax, and two voice. I know that to interface to them i will need some hardware. From there i am not sure whether i should do voip within the office (which will mean buying voip phones) or use standard phones (which i assume means more POTS/computer hardware). Can anyone give me some pointers to suitable NZ telecom approved compatible hardware? OTOH maybe I should look for some aging key phone system on trademe? -- Bluewater Systems Ltd - ARM Technology Solutions Centre Andre Renaud Bluewater Systems Ltd Phone: +64 3 3779127 (Aus 1 800 148 751)Level 17, 119 Armagh St Fax: +64 3 3779135PO Box 13889 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Christchurch Web: http://www.bluewatersys.com New Zealand signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Ratz!
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 15:49 +1200, John Carter wrote: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/24/024923 I think you're missing a character there http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/24/0249231 Andre signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: OEM X100P - Suitable for Asterisk
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 15:29 +1200, Hadley Rich wrote: I have a spare OEM X100P - FXO PCI Card[1] (Digium compatible clone) from digitnetworks which I thought I'd offer to the list before it went on Trademe. It's worth $50 to me. I bought it as a set of two but I only really need one, so now I am selling the other. It hasn't been used. If anyone is interested in having a play with Asterisk -- I'd recommend it, it's fun and useful too :) I'm in Timaru so if anyone wants it tomorrow I'm coming up to CHCH to pick up the mother in law otherwise you can shout for the courier at a later date. I've ordered the same combo from Digitnetworks just the other day, but it is going to take an age to get here due to another part being delayed, so I'd be quite interested in buying this off you - where abouts in Christchurch will you be when you come up? Andre signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: Home on a FAT partition
I'm wondering about putting my entire home directory on a FAT partition, and pointing Windows' My Documents folder at the same partition, so that files, pictures etc. stored under one OS are seamlessly usable under the other. Is this just a Very Bad Idea, fraught with terrible danger? I'm aware that I would not be able to hibernate (suspend to disk) Windows, as that doesn't unmount the FAT partition. When Windows is restarted, it will simply ignore any changes made by Linux in the meantime. In general this is a bad idea, you'll have all kinds of problems with permissions, and probably other things too. Since most of these problems are only for the root of your home directory, the solution that I've used in the past is to just mount your C:/My documents directory somewhere on linux (/windows, /documents etc...) and then put symlinks in your home directory to the relevant parts of it. So if you've got my documents/music, you can now have /home/user/music as a symlink to it etc a bit more maintenance, but not too hard. Andre
RE: Cheap way to get into embedded linux
The PSU is a standard wallwart kind of plug pack - it puts out 7.5v dc @ 100mA, so you'd probably need something in between this unit and a car power supply. It doesn't have audio, although you could use a USB audio card. However I think the CPU would be too underpowered for MP3 playback if that is what you had in mind. Could play raw audio happily (I believe, haven't actually got a USB audio card to confirm that). Andre On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 12:52 +1300, C. Falconer wrote: Interesting - what do you intend to use it for? Whats the PSU? Does it have audio? How powerful is the CPU in effective terms? I'm thinking car computer btw :) -Original Message- From: Andre Renaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 23 December 2004 11:38 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Cheap way to get into embedded linux If anyone out there is interested in having a look at running linux on an embedded device, or making a cool linux gadget, there is a router board for sale from DSE, the XH1151 ...
Cheap way to get into embedded linux
If anyone out there is interested in having a look at running linux on an embedded device, or making a cool linux gadget, there is a router board for sale from DSE, the XH1151 (http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/XH1151) which the company I work for have recently managed to get uCLinux up and going on. It costs around $100, and requires a few additional components to be added (probably around $20 worth). Includes ethernet USB 1.1 host support. Anyway, there are some instructions on the hardware changes required available at http://www.freelists.org/webpage/w90n740 as well as a mailing list (subscription details are here: http://www.freelists.org/list/w90n740 ) This isn't a commercial post BTW - we're not selling these boards (although we do plan to make up a small kit at somepoint that people can purchase for hopefully around $150 including a modded board and all the required software), it is just a community interest kind of project. Cheers, Andre
Re: OT: Monitor hardware fixing?
On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 22:15 +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote: I've a 21 bottle that doesn't work right (No, it isn't one of the recent set that came via the list). The 'picture', such as it is, is basically a single bright vertical line roughly down the center of the screen. I don't fancy opening the beast up myself, but if anyone knew of a decent repair business who might be prepared to have a go I'd like to hear about it ... Try Vintron Electronics (possibly Vintronics?). They've repaired monitors for me before, but they aren't super cheap, and it is often not worth it, since CRT monitors aren't that expensive these days. Andre
Re: Screenshot of XDM, KDM or GDM - How?
On Thu, 2004-07-29 at 09:41, Yuri de Groot wrote: How does one make a screenshot of the login screen? Yuri Haven't tried it, but once it is running, switch to VT1, and then type (as root): xwd -display :0 | convert xwd:- screenshot.png Assuming that root has access to the display when GDM is running - not 100% sure of that. or Xnest (simpler) Andre
Re: quick sed script please
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 13:04, Nick Rout wrote: to delete every crlf to a space. tried sed 's/\015\012/ /' dbcontents.txt dbcontents2.txt and sed 's/\015\012/\024/' dbcontents.txt dbcontents2.txt and and some variations. You'd think this kind of thing would be relatively simple, but I've had a look and it is actually a real trick to work with newlines in sed. Have a look at this page from the faq: http://www.student.northpark.edu/pemente/sed/sedfaq4.html#s4.25 Andre
Re: smbumount time out?
That indicates that someone has the share open, by the looks of your prompt, you are probably sitting in /mnt, so your shell process is holding the directory open. Try: cd / umount /mnt if it still doesn't work, try fuser -m /mnt That will list all of the process ids that have the mount point open. Andre On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 15:38, Don Gould wrote: Is there a time limit between when you can unmount a mounted share and when you mount it? I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mnt]# smbumount /mnt Could not umount /mnt: Device or resource busy Is there a way to force the unmount? Cheers Don
Re: svn complains about libneon.so.23
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 17:04, Andrew Tarr wrote: Jim Cheetham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Right. If you're on Debian stable. subversion is available only on testing and unstable, as far as I can tell (from apt-cache policy subversion). So go and have a look at the bug-tracking system, and see if you're alone. -jim Have done so. I'm alone :'[ if there's some assurance from the list that this is worthy of a bug report, I'll make one. Last time I made a bug report, it wasn't really a bug, and it was embarassing... This kind of thing is not too uncommon if you are running debian unstable/testing - it indicates that a new version of a package has been uploaded, but its dependencies haven't all quite made it through yet. Normally you can just wait for a few days and they will show up, however sometimes you could be waiting a while if they have been held up for some kind of reason (critical bug or something). If you need the software quickly the easiest thing to do is to build the problem package (subversion in your case) from source. Have a look at the source option to apt-get, I think it would be something like: apt-get --compile source subversion If you don't use development tools on your box, then this might require you to install a lot of software (gcc, libc6-dev, libneon-dev etc...). Hope that helps - I haven't had to do this for a while, so I could have missed a step. Andre signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
OT: RE: Mandrake 9.2 mirrors?
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Re: Networking issue
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 00:00, Nick Rout wrote: yes its been lingering in my mind as to why exactly there is a default route set before the gateway to the outside world goes up? With IP, you only *need* a loopback interface - all other interfaces can be virtual, not physical. So the presence of IP implies loopback, which implies a default route to loopback. The inside world is always present - the outside world is not. When you install new interfaces, it's up to the installer to nominate the new default route. (Yes, leaving a default route to loopback isn't necesarily that useful, but it always works) I'm not quite sure how this relates to default routes, but pointing your default route at your loopback device is almost definitely thing wrong thing to do. There is no need to have a default route at all, if you are on a small network with no external connectivity you may not have one. So if you've just got an ethernet card 90% of the time, which is attached to a single closed subnet, and occasionally dial up via a modem, then you really should not assign the default route to your ethernet card. Just don't have one, let pppd sort that out for you. Andre
Re: Networking issue
if you've just got an ethernet card 90% of the time, which is attached to a single closed subnet, and occasionally dial up via a modem, then you really should not assign the default route to your ethernet card. Just don't have one, let pppd sort that out for you. This is a valid workaround, and is appliccable depending on your LAN setup. For more complex LAN setups it won't work. To do things properly, you'll need to fix the problem, and that's your ppp setup. I'm not quite sure what you mean by work-around. As far as I can tell, the problem described is that there is default route somewhere pointing to an IP address on one of his ethernet cards, and then when he connects to the internet pppd comes along and attempts to re-assign the default route. Somewhere in here things are getting screwed up. The default route is basically saying everything that you don't know about, send to this router. Now if his local ethernet cards are somehow connected to the internet, then having a default route on them is valid, but that isn't the case described, so it is invalid. If he has a complex internal network, with a lot of different subnets, and he doesn't want to statically assign a route to each one, then he should run a routing protocol such as RIP, OSPF, or IGRP. Using the default route as a way of avoiding lots of static routes is not the correct thing to do - that is the whole point of routing protocols. The solution I provided isn't a work-around, as there doesn't seem to be a problem with ppp (except that it is exposing the flaw in his network config), it is the correct solution - unless I am misunderstanding the problem? Cheers, Andre
Re: Networking issue
The LAN setup is ... From the Options Server (10.0.0.1) if I start ppp0 (WVDIAL) and ping my ISPs DNS server (203.97.33.14) it tries to ping from 10.0.0.1, not 203.isp.dhcp.address and the end result? Destination host unreachable. Destination host unreachable. Destination host unreachable. etc etc etc ad infinitum. Now, here's the way I got it to go... Kinda rudimentary but effective ifconfig eth0 down /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall wvdial ifconfig eth0 up This, as you can imagine, is a royal pain in the ass if the modem should get disconnected while I'm 400+ kms from home, and wife knows little/nothing about linux to correct the issue... it's a big toll call talking her through the many steps... When you say tries to ping from 10.0.0.1 do you mean it tries to send the ping out the 10.0.0.1 card, or tries to send it out the modem, but with a source address of 10.0.0.1? Can you go through the broken setup, and once it is connected, run: netstat -rn and post the output? Andre
Re: Networking issue
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface ... This line here: 0.0.0.0 10.0.0.10.0.0.0 UG 40 0 0 eth1 is basically saying that the default route is to go to eth1, the 10.0.0.1 card. I'm assuming (anyone know the correct answer here?) that pppd does not override the default route if it sees that you already have one. The simplest solution is probably to find your ethernet config setup (what distro are you using) and remove the default route setting for eth1. You can do this temporarily till the next reboot by running: route del -net default gw 10.0.0.1 Andre
Re: Networking issue
this is going in circles. i think that conclusion was reached yesterday, or so. no criticism of you Andre :-) volker's posts were most informative on problems with pppd not setting a default route if one was already present. Sorry about rehashing old stuff, I got a truckload of spam yesterday, and skipped a page or two of emails to get by them - so I seem to have missed a large chunk of this discussion. My mistake, Andre
Re: OT: errant keyboard behaviour
Todays useless bit of information. ... some keys are inhibitor keys: t, in conjunction with left-shift, inhibits the disply of both itself, and vfr45 and b I get the same sort of behaviour on my Compaq USB keyboard. The only thing I can think of is that it has to do with the underlying circuitry of the keys? Andre
Re: why no tv on tvout?
on my gateway laptop, graphics chip s3 savage ix/mv i have tvout. xfree 4.3. running at 800x600 (ie closish to pal). this works fine, and shows the desktop, although its not that sharp (surprise surprise). using composite video (tv has no s-video in, lappie has no s-video out) however when I play a movie file using xine or mplayer, either full screen or windowed, it just shows a blue expanse, like a windows BSOD but without the informative messages. any ideas whats going on here? i have tried ntsc and pal output, and two different movie files (one .avi and one .mov) both play fine in the lcd screen attached to the laptop, but unfortunately it ain't 29 inches and the viewing angle is only so-so. also to get it close enough to the stereo to plug in the sound it is too far away from the sofa to be seen at all! The blue screen is related to using the Xvideo extension. Xvideo (xv) allows software to write directly to video memory data that need colour space conversion (ie: YUV data instead of RGB). The blue window is what X-Windows uses in its own internal memory (I'm not too sure about that side of it). Most modern video cards can do all kinds of this stuff in hardware, which is obviously faster. It would seem that your video card doesn't support xv on the second head (tv-out) - I think this is quite common. To confirm if this is the problem, try running mplayer as: mplayer -vo x11 filename.avi That will force it to do the colour conversion in software. If that works, then it may be okay to just use that when you want TV-out (Since you're probably not using the laptop for other things at the same time, so wasting some CPU doing colour conversion isn't a big deal), or possibly there are some different drivers to help you. Andre
Re: mail co-op? (was Re: unix server co-operative?)
I'd settle for a decent stable long-term email address that I can access using secure POP/IMAP. Maybe something easy like [EMAIL PROTECTED] That way, I don't need to pay for my own domain name, and when I change ISPs (which looks like it will happen soon, given my current ISP's behaviour) I don't lose my email address(es). If a bunch of us joined together, it would be fairly cheap, no? Is it a wise use of CLUG funds to set something like this up and charge, say, $1/month ? (We're not exactly scraping the bottom of the barrel ATM). I definitely like the idea of a geek-supported secure email system, but the problem is to do all of the features that people want (SSL pop/imap/smtp/webmail, pgp, ssh? etc...) would probably require telehosting your own box (I can't think of any ISPs which offer all those services), and telehosting is not cheap, even if 50 clug members joined in, I doubt $50/month would cut it for the bandwidth etc let alone hardware. The only way it would be feasible would be if the clug were able to get some kind of discount somewhere (perhaps there is a member who can get cheap rates from their employer?). Having said that, I think it is a decent thing to look into. Andre
Re: mail co-op? (was Re: unix server co-operative?)
in, I doubt $50/month would cut it for the bandwidth etc let alone hardware. The only way it would be feasible would be if the clug were able Having said that, after a bit of searching for colocation on google, it turns out that $100/month actually would cut it at a few places (I have never used either of these providers, they just came up first in the search): http://www.neuron.net.nz/internetservices/colocation/ http://www.win.co.nz/price.sql Andre
Re: mail co-op? (was Re: unix server co-operative?)
does a mail server need pgp? isn't that handled by a client? That was really for the webmail, but as someone else mentioned, it may not be appropriate to have webmail with pgp. IMHO, ssh yes, as people will want to set up their procmail filters. this is assuming people have imap accounts. you'd want to tie the shell down pretty tight to just being able to manage the procmail process. don't want people being able to launch ddns attacks Yeah, I wouldn't think you'd want to give everyone shell access, so some kind of restricted menu would probably be in order. There are some pretty cunning things that can be done with jailed environments etc... why can't a few of the jetstart owners get together with a dyndns account and have a few email addresses like [EMAIL PROTECTED], pointed at someone with a 10G monthly limit. That isn't a bad idea, except it doesn't really scale to more than a dozen people, and I doubt it is in-line with the jetstart terms and services (static ips/servers etc) Andre
Re: passwordless user accounts
This is definitely a cool feature, but unfortunately due to PAM compatability, it has been removed from the newer versions of GDM. See the changelog: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2003-June/msg00044.html I'm assuming that since it is removed, there must be someway of configuring PAM such that it no longer requires passwords for certain users under certain login conditions (i.e: local X logins), but I haven't found any references to that yet. Andre Heres a snippit from my own /etc/gdm/gdm.conf snip LocalNoPasswordUsers=chefu,britches,guest /snip Still have passwords and ssh keys, but simplifies my gdm login. So for my home machine (which is usually logged in anyways) its great.
Re: Debian: reusing apt cache?
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 14:48, Jim Cheetham wrote: How can I re-use all the wonderful .deb files in /var/cache/apt? Can I make them available as an apt-source to other machines? You couldn't do something simple (or stupid) like making /var/cache/apt a shared directory ---using perhaps NFS or something? Don't know if it'll work tho...or even if it's a good idea. This works pretty well actually. The only downside is that apt complains about being unable to create a lock file. It still runs fine, but I wouldn't try run two copies of apt at the same time on different machines, they might get a little confused. It is certainly easier than setting up a proxy etc.. Andre
Re: IP Masquerading, Is this ok?
echo 1 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o ppp0 -j MASQUERADE You can see I am using an dial up connection to connect to the internet. The question is this. Am I leaving a really big security hole by doing things this way? Or is this good enough for a home user on a dial up connection. I would really recommend using a more advanced setup, this one doesn't give you any real protection. The simplest NAT/Firewall system I've found is firehol: http://firehol.sf.net. It is a single bash script, and a really easy config file. You can pretty much just take their example and use it directly for your situation, since it is fairly trivial. Andre
Re: Realtime firewall notification?
Does anyone know of a simple to configure notify app that uses iptables? I'd even like something that can put up a dialog box and play a sound! (like a dog barking!) I'm not entirely sure I know quite what you're after, but if you want to find out whenever something hits your firewall that you haven't allowed a rule for (either outgoing or incoming), then all those details are normally logged with syslog. There are loads of tools that can monitor syslog entries, and do various things like email you, or run an arbitrary program etc... There are probably things that interface directly with iptables, but using a syslog monitor is a lot more generic, as you can get it to alert you about all kinds of other useful things. I can't think of any products off the top of my head, but a quick freshmeat search revealed: http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/LogDog/ http://swatch.sourceforge.net/ http://69.56.132.179/~ury/ Hope that helps, Andre
Re: Toy library software
This may be a bit late now, since it is already Sunday. But I've got webspace you can use with all those features. Give me a call when you've got it done Tim, and I'll pop it up. Andre On Wed, 02 Jul 2003 11:44:03 +1200 (NZST) Tim Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If someone gives me access to a server with postgresql and apache and php4 attached to the web (that's not hidden behind the university firewall:) I'll be happy\ldots
Re: truncate file with shell
Is there a shell command which can truncate a file to the given number of bytes? It would need to work with large files (i.e. 2GB). Have a look at split. Andre
Re: making use of old equipment
A little trial and error should fix the problem. If you can get the bios to see the HDD as say a 500 MB drive then you can get the kernel loaded. Once Linux is running it by-passes the bios and sees the drive as it actually is, 10 gig. One thing to note is that the kernel must be within the first 500MB, so generally you create / (or /boot) as the first partition on the disk (say 100MB if it is /, or 10-20MB if /boot), and then partition the rest how you like Andre
Re: Debian Install Problems
Request_Module[Block-Major-3]: Root fs not mounted VFS: Cannot Open root device 03:41 kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root device on 03:47 It looks like your root device has changed - ie: You installed onto hda1, but on the new computer it is now hdb1 or something. Make sure the hard drive is detected in the same place as on the old system (primary master or whatever) Hope that helps, Andre
Re: Debian Install Problems
A better way to do this is to boot once using the root=/dev/hdb1 (or whatever) and then use the rdev command to change the root device in your kernel. I think you use it like: rdev /dev/hdb1 /boot/vmlinuz that will change /boot/vmlinuz to use /dev/hdb1 as its root device. Andre It is possible to change this on an existing installation, even if you can't connect it to the original install place. First step is to pass the kernel your new root filesystem location. This is done via the kernel command line, in LILO just append whatever options you want after your image name. (I don't recall how to do the same thing in GRUB, but it will be possible..) The option you need to pass in this instance is `root=fulldev` (without quotes), where fulldev is either the major:minor numbers of your new root filesystem, or the full device path (ie, /dev/hda1). You'll also need to pass an option to shortcut the boot process and just give us a root shell. This option is `init=/bin/sh` (without quotes). The kernel should boot, and where you'd normally see init load, you'll be dumped out to a prompt like such: (none):#. Before you can fix up the remounting of filesystems, you need to remount the root filesystem as read-write. This is because the kernel always mounts the root filesystem read-only. You can remount it with: mount -o remount -w / Once remounted, make sure you've mounted any other critical filesystems, you'll need /boot, and /etc. Make sure you mount those read-write as well. For example, if my /boot is on /dev/hda1, mount it like: mount -w /dev/hda1 /boot Now, you'll need to fix up the bootloader's configuration. For LILO, edit/etc/lilo.conf and change boot= and root= as appropriate. Re-run LILO once you're done. Lastly, you'll need to change the table used to mount file systems, /etc/fstab. Edit each line there to suit the new drive location. Finally, ensure all your changes are written to disk by typing: sync YOU MUST SYNC THE FILESYSTEM BEFORE REBOOTING or your changes will not hit the media. Hit Control-Alt-Del, and things should boot normally.
