Juan Quintela writes:
> >>>>> "kees" == Kees de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> kees> Hi,
> kees> I've recently installed MandrakeFreq on my new system that has an onboard
> kees> HighPoint RAID controller, but to be on the safe side I installed with the
> kees> IDE drive connected to the standard IDE controller.
>
> kees> Is it possible to switch the drives to the RAID controller, because the
> kees> info tells me that these are IDE2/3. If possible, what should I use in the
> kees> lilo.conf and fstab files for root instead of /dev/hda?
>
> You can change it, but not use the RAID options (for that you need to
> reinstall):
>
> ide0: hda, hdb
> ide1: hdc, hdd
> ide2: hde, hdf
> ide3: hdg, hdh
>
> That means that if you change your disk from hda to hde, you need to
> change all the occurences of hda for hde (hdaX for hdeX also).
>
> Notice that you also need a booting floppy, as the system will not
> boot the first time, you need to boot with
> rescue root=/dev/hdeX
> and then run lilo.
Thanks for the info. I will try this when I've fixed some of the other
problems I'm having right now.
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