On Sun, Sep 28, 2003 at 01:07:36PM -0700, Marc Heikens wrote: > I hope someone can help me with this, I've been working on this for > awhile and looking for help in a few other venues: > > I've been trying to move my Linux installation from one drive to > another, to no avail. Finally, last night, I decided what the heck, > I'm gonna just do a complete reinstall. Here's how everything is > situated at the moment:
When I did this I hooked the new drive up to /dev/hda1, installed Redhat 9, shut down, connected the disk to /dev/hde on the Promise controller, changed the boot order in the bios to SCSI (i.e. PCI controller), and it booted just fine. Redhat uses disk labels, and I believe the only entry I had to change in /etc/fstab was to change swap from /dev/hda3 to /dev/hde3. After getting it to boot cleanly from the new controller I mounted my old partitions manually and copied over the stuff I wanted. Are you using a PCI controller, or is the ata100 controller built into the motherboard? The reason I'm asking, you may need a bios upgrade if your motherboard doesn't understand 120GB disks. > Thanks for any help, and if any more information is needed please let > me know. I'm dying to sort this all out. Oh and as for motivation > for doing this at all--I am hoping to eke out a bit more speed in swap > space usage, as well as boot time, from the new drive. Hdparm tells me my new drive / controller (WD 80GB w/8mb cache, Promise Ultra100 tx2) is more than twice as fast as my old 7200 rpm Maxtor on the ata/33 controller. Actually the entire computer feels snappier, so I guess swap is faster too ;-). -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
