* Grant Grundler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 11:05:01PM +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote: > > Hi, > > > > [del] > > >The old disk has ID 6, and I can do whatever I want, once I add the new > > >disk, I cannot boot, since the kernel doesn't find it's rootfs on hda > > >-- since it's hdb now. > > > > > >How can I add a new physical disk as hdb ? > > > > Jumpering the old disk to ID 0 would do the trick, if the controler is > > on ID 7, which is often the case. > > This will work if both old and new disks are on the same SCSI bus. > If they are not, give up on renaming and modify the boot parameter > "root=" to point to the new disk. Then fixup /etc/fstab and > /etc/palo.conf to point to the new name and reboot.
I did that now. WOrks OK. -- Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V a) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charite Campus Mitte Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 Referat V a - Kommunikationsnetze - Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 AIM: ralfpostfix
