-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 02 Mar 2005 12:13, Hugh Dixon wrote:
Hugh - before going on to your query - when quoting, please always remove the signature if it has a line '-- ' because most mail readers take anything below that to be signature and remove it when someone wants to answer you. > I'm not sure if this is part of the question (but it's a problem I had this > evening, and got round it be changing the jumpers back) � Easiest way ;-) > If device hda > becomes hdb because the master/slaves have been swapped, how do you update > the linux/mandrake installation to look on a different disk? > If you really want to change it, then you will need to make changes to lilo.conf before you swap the jumpers. Method 1 - somewhat dangerous First, back up /etc/lilo.conf mv lilo.conf lilo.conf.bak Near the beginning of /etc/lilo.conf you will see a line like boot=/dev/hda That needs to be changed to hdb Then in each stanza you will find that root is being told where to look - in my case root=/dev/hde12 which is partition 12 on drive hde. Keep the partition number, but change the hda to hdb in every place you find it. When you've finished you need to run lilo /sbin/lilo Do be aware that if you get this wrong you will need a rescue disk to sort it out. Method 2 - Probably a safer way is to use your CD1. I think you press Esc when it starts up - there's an on-screen message, so you should see it. One option then is Rescue - and one option on that is to repair your boot menu. That will safely do it for you. I'm sorry I can't be more explicit at this moment but I'm sure you will find it. Anne - -- Registered Linux User No.293302 (http://counter.li.org/) Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Mandrake at all levels -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCJbI/kFAvMr/nNX8RAoZIAKCSsJ+Yp89jiUSKtjZGuez6+ImR3ACbBl/b 2K/nZ6j4C7WEk5u/uVGUEhw= =ApGB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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