From: joy Subject: Re: Moving Hard Drive Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 09:14:44 +0530 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <400CA42C.2040807@sancharnet.in> References: <20040120021411.0C9D91C905@heisspf> Reply-To: gracecott@sancharnet.in Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; format="flowed"; charset="us-ascii" To: Peter Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Peter wrote: >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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs