Hi I'm currently in the following situation: I have two hard drives, the old one contains Mandrake linux and windows, and on the new one I'm install gentoo. They are connected to the motherboard with the same cable, the old one first, so that the old one corresponds to /dev/hda and the new one to /dev/hdb. When I'm finished installing, I want to connect the new one with a new cable to the motherboard, and connect the cdrom instead with the old cable. I also want to install a bootloader on the new drive, and change the boot sequence in the bios to boot from the new one first. Now, finally, my question is: how all this affects the mapping of the physical drive to the files (/dev/hd*)? What happens if I install the bootloader before changing the physical configuration? is there a difference between lilo and grub with respect to these questions? I'll be happy to have pointers to somewhere where this is explained, as currently my understanding of this is very vague.
Thanks, Moshe
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