Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> Tom Eastman wrote:
> >
> > I need to re-arrange my hard drives in my computer.
> >
> > Essentially my Linux hard drive hdd will become hda.
> >
> > How can I do this without losing my system? How many places in linux will I have
>to tell that the hard drive is now in a different place?
>
> Only /etc/fstab. This contains all the mapping of the real
> partitions to /, swap, mount points.
>
> But the problem is that /etc/fstab must be altered to the new
> configuration before you do the first boot as hda - one way this can
> be achieved is by pre-altering /etc/fstab while still booted as hdd
> (the system will not mind unless you are running kdf which will show
> both a hybrid of the old and new arrangements and can be ignored),
> but you had better save a backup of /etc/fstab and get the new
> partition mappings exactly completely correct!
The others are correct - lilo must also be reconfigured to boot from
the hdd Linux partition.
It's probably best to edit the hdd boot partition's lilo.conf change
the global boot partition and add new stanzas with unique names to
boot from hda, then run /sbin/lilo (if it will accept them). Then
when running as hda, lilo should present all the booting options for
hdd and hda to you. Having transited over, you can remove the hdd
stanzas and create a new boot floppy disk.
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Regards,
Ron. [AU]
