"Jose Orlando T. Ribeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...
> > remove the cdrom and install any old ide drive as hdc. (you COULD simply move the
>cdrom to
> > where its going to end up, but that adds one more change that I wanted to
>avoid)
> > boot up - everything SHOULD still work.
>
> It doesn�t work... I tried to boot without the CD-ROM, but it hanged the same
> way... after the error message (...Please append a correct "root" boot
> option...) the machine hangs up... I was thinking about changing the fstab
> BEFORE changing the drives... but I fear that I can end with a system that
> doesn�t boot anyway...
So if you simply remove the cd from the current config, and make no other changes,
you cannot boot?
Yikes. Um. Hmm. well, if that's true then I'll have to say I'll have to let
someone else figure it out ;-)
You also mentioned that you had enough space to make a backup on your disk -
I assume you mean the current hdb? If that's so, then make a new partition
on that disk to hold the current /, copy everything over to there, edit THAT
copy of /etc/fstab to point to /dev/hdc, halt, move everything around (including
the cd), boot up saying 'linux root=/dev/hd<whatever_partition_that_new_one_is',
then fix /etc/lilo.conf, run lilo, and try a reboot....
Much easier, I'd say. (and recovery is simply move the drives back and reboot,
assuming you've not hosed lilo... wait ! You'll definately have to hack on lilo.conf
(i.e. remove /dev/hdb) to make this work! Make yourself a boot disk for when its at
/dev/hdb so that you can always move back to having hdb in case somethin messes up
in the above!)
rc
rc
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