Moving Hard Drive
Hi,
I got myself a new larger hard drive which is presently a secondary master hdc. On it I have RH9 and SW9.1 the latter doing the booting with lilo.
I want to make now this drive the master drive by which I assume it will become hda.
Is it correct then that before doing the switch I will have to change in /etc/fstab and lilo.conf all what is labeled hdc to hda? Boot initially from a floppy into SW run lilo and I should be set with the new drive as master.
Thanks & regards
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Quoted 10 lines · Peter
Hi,
I got myself a new larger hard drive which is presently a secondary master hdc. On it I have RH9 and SW9.1 the latter doing the booting with lilo.
I want to make now this drive the master drive by which I assume it will become hda.
Is it correct then that before doing the switch I will have to change in
/etc/fstaband lilo.conf all what is labeled hdc to hda?
Yes, certainly for fstab and I'm pretty sure for lilo.conf too (I use Grub myself and it would apply to Grub's conf file 'menu.lst').
I'd first make a copy of the fstab and conf files just in case something goes wrong and you want to change back.
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Boot initially
from a floppy into SW run lilo and I should be set with the new drive as master.
That would work OK with Grub so I guess it will work with Lilo.
Re the boot floppy, if it was created when you installed your system, it may be set to boot your system on hdc and may fail when you move it to hda. I find it handy to have a Grub boot floppy which I can use to boot a system
'anywhere', I don't know if Lilo makes a similar boot floppy. I also find
it handy to keep a spare floppy 'rescue disk' like Toms Root Boot, RIP or Leka, or an install CD with a 'Rescue' option.
Btw, I'm not sure what distro 'SW' is but I think fstab, Lilo and Grub work nearly the same way in all distros.
cr
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Boot initially
from a floppy into SW run lilo and I should be set with the new drive as master.
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Re the boot floppy, if it was created when you installed your system, it may be set to boot your system on hdc and may fail when you move it to hda.
I can tell the floppy to boot into hda* and in SlackWare (there is the SW) I have anyhow a bootable live rescue disc.
Regards
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I can tell the floppy to boot into hda* and in SlackWare (there is the SW) I have anyhow a bootable live rescue disc.
Regards
Since you are on lilo , it would be easier to type on the lilo prompt root=/dev/hda(something - your root partiton)
for it to boot thru instaed of all the fuss with boot disks and rescue cds . then edit fstab and lilo.conf
Joy
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I can tell the floppy to boot into hda* and in SlackWare (there is the SW) I have anyhow a bootable live rescue disc.
Regards
Since you are on lilo , it would be easier to type on the lilo prompt
Thats the point, if he "moves" /dev/hda to /dev/hdc then he "wont" have lilo on his MBR, or at least not under normal curcumstancies.
One can place lilo where he/she wants via /etc/lilo.conf, leave disks where they are and use the mobo's boot option to choose which ever disk to boot from, if of course one has a recent motherboard and a BIOS which supports booting from all devices, that option has been around for a few years now so chances are there is no real need to move devices around anyway.
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root=/dev/hda(something - your root partiton)
for it to boot thru instaed of all the fuss with boot disks and rescue cds .
then edit fstab and lilo.confJoy
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Is it correct then that before doing the switch I will have to change in
/etc/fstaband lilo.conf all what is labeled hdc to hda?
Boot initially
from a floppy into SLackWare run lilo and I should be set with the new drive as master.
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Since you are on lilo, it would be easier to type on the lilo prompt
Since hdc was moved to hda there is initially no more MBR before I run lilo.
Therefore what Peter wrote above correctly replaced the old 5 Gb HD with the new 20 Gb HD as Master.
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Is it correct then that before doing the switch I will have to change in
/etc/fstaband lilo.conf all what is labeled hdc to hda? Boot initially
from a floppy into SLackWare run lilo and I should be set with the new drive
as master.[email protected] said:
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Since you are on lilo, it would be easier to type on the lilo prompt
Since hdc was moved to hda there is initially no more MBR before I run lilo.
Therefore what Peter wrote above correctly replaced the old 5 Gb HD with the new 20 Gb HD as Master.
Yes, I got the catch. thanks for enlightening me about the matter.
But I have a doubt....
As pa3gcu said couldn't you use the bios' boot option to boot thru the other drive and since it's lilo.conf is pointing to hdc, could'nt you then pass the root= parameter?
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Yes, I got the catch. thanks for enlightening me about the matter. But I have a doubt....
As pa3gcu said couldn't you use the bios' boot option to boot thru the other drive and since it's lilo.conf is pointing to hdc, could'nt you then pass the root= parameter?
When using the BIOS option to boot other disks one needs to install lilo on that disk's MBR first, so that means trying to pass root= is not needed because the BIOS swaps disks around for you. Rather like the lilo option when tricking windows into thinking its installed on /dev/hdaX when in fact its on /dev/hdbX as per section, "Booting a foreign operating system" of the lilo README.
So all that means we now need to have lilo installed on all bootable disks MBR's. To do that simply edit lilo.conf and set;
boot= to /dev/hd(whichever disk) in this case /dev/hdc .
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So all that means we now need to have lilo installed on all bootable disks MBR's. To do that simply edit lilo.conf and set; boot= to
/dev/hd(whichever disk) in this case/dev/hdc
It's that simple and I should have figured it out myself. However, I remember in my early Linux days somebody had told that the boot must be on hda.
Since I removed my old drive, going back to me old machine, would it then not be necessary to move hdc to hda, instead just leave it where it is? Thus the secondary master becomes primary master or not?
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It's that simple and I should have figured it out myself. However, I remember in my early Linux days somebody had told that the boot must be on hda.
Since I removed my old drive, going back to me old machine, would it then not be necessary to move hdc to hda, instead just leave it where it is? Thus the secondary master becomes primary master or not?
As long the connection on the mobo is the secondary, it wont be moved to hda. you would know wether it is a primary or secondary master during the h/w check bfore lilo is loaded
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Hi,
I got myself a new larger hard drive which is presently a secondary master hdc. On it I have RH9 and SW9.1 the latter doing the booting with lilo.
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I want to make now this drive the master drive by which I assume it will become hda.
Is it correct then that before doing the switch I will have to change in
/etc/fstaband lilo.conf all what is labeled hdc to hda? Boot initially from a floppy into SW run lilo and I should be set with the new drive as master.
yes.
It's correct.
You have to modify also /etc/lilo.conf
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Hi, Peter:
You didn't mention that you had system files on /dev/hdc.
If it has been simply installed, you should be able to copy all of your system files from your root system to this new file system. Then use fdisk to make it bootable.
Perhaps
mount /dev/hdc /mnt
cp -x / /mnt
umount /mnt
would work?
I am assuming that you could then simply swap IDE connectors
on the mobo.
HTH, Chuck
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Hi,
I got myself a new larger hard drive which is presently a secondary master hdc. On it I have RH9 and SW9.1 the latter doing the booting with lilo.
I want to make now this drive the master drive by which I assume it will become hda.
Is it correct then that before doing the switch I will have to change in
/etc/fstaband lilo.conf all what is labeled hdc to hda? Boot initially from a floppy into SW run lilo and I should be set with the new drive as master.Thanks & regards
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Peter
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