Mark Phillips wrote:
> I have two ide drives in one machine - drive 1 is a Windows drive and drive
> 2 is a Linux drive. Using grub, I can boot into either windows or debian. I
> want to remove the windows drive and replace it with a larger, blank drive
> for backup storage. I have a feeling if I just remove the first drive and
> put the new one there, the machine will not boot, since the MBR is probably
> on the first drive (it came with the machine, and I just added the second
> drive for Linux). My questions:
>
> 1. How do I change grub on the Linux drive (hdb) to say "the windows drive
> is dead, boot here instead, long live linux"?
>
> 2. Do I move the second drive to the first ide port, or leave it as the
> second ide drive and put the new drive in the fist ide port?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
>
Mark Phillips
Opportunity knocks? Maybe. Assuming you are not going to do anything
with the MS drive anyway ...
the MB has primary and secondary IDE connectors, and each will
handle a master and a slave (2) drives - that makes 4 (not counting
floppy because that is a different connector)
do you have space on that arrangement for another IDE drive?
... if so ...
add the drive there and you're in.
... if no ...
add an extra IDE connector or two (via a pci card)
add the drive there and you're in.
... in either case, your mess factor is reduced and you can still boot
MS - or is that something you wanted to ditch anyway? If so ...
add the new drive as in one of the above
format the MS drive to give yourself even more extra Linux space
Hope that helps
Regards
Fred James
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