On Wednesday 02 March 2005 07:31 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > 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 if you change the jumpers and forgot to fix fstab, you can boot into the first install cd of Mandrake, instead of enter to install, type f1 and then ' linux rescue', that will bring up a set of utilities that will find, mount and fix fstab. -- linux counter #167806 (http://counter.li.org/) website="http://ed-tharp.kicks-ass.org";
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