Hi, Since my last posting I did some tests.(on my system all drives are primary) It can be done to change drive positions BUT carefull attention should be given to FSTAB and BOOTLOADER. ******** PLEASE read all of the posting before attempting the changes. Make sure you have means to access your system if anything should go wrong.
In your case I would suggest the following...... .(because hdc mbr is not wrtten to and need to be written in hda)... ....BEFORE you log out.... 1-Change in fstab hdc to hda and visa versa. 2-Log out and power down. 3-Switch the HD's. 4-Power on and insert CD1 of your installation in the cdrom. 5-Go through the motions untill you reach upgrade/install - select upgrade. 6-Go thruogh the motions untill screen where a lot of configuration is required. 7-Some of the choices may need to be corrected. 8-Select bootloader - select hda - select your bootloader choice - maybe some changes required. *** ANYBODY - you are tired of your bootloader and want to change but fear a mistake - let Mandrake do it for you -Step 2 to 10. *** 9-All done choose next. 10-Go through the motions untill reboot. If all went well you should be booting in to new hda previous hdc. I have tested the above on a single HD - moving it from hde to hdg and then from hdg to hde - only changes required was in fstab. (again the other way around - and also changed bootloader - worked every time for me). (MDK 9.1 and 9.2) I will NOT suggest that this WILL work on all other PC's - you do so at your own risk. I am sure there are many other ways to do this. (even less work). If you are using grub and would like to make a GRUB boot floppy and need assistance I can give you detailed instructions to create one. It works every time for me. Feel free to ask. Goodluck Enjoy Johan ******************** On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 22:19, Johan wrote: > Watch it - moving linux drive position - you will get KERNEL PANIC - and > that is the end of it, thats my experience. > (only windows does not care if you move drive positions). > > When I had this problem and posted to list nobody replied. > > I am looking forward to your feedback or anybody else. > Johan > *************** > > On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 03:36, Bryan Phinney wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 October 2003 08:18 pm, racerpup2 wrote: > > > I am finally able to get rid of windows xp from this computer. I would > > > like to put Mandrake 9.2 on hda. Right now it is on hdc. Should I just > > > do a fresh install and start over again or can I use backup to save > > > system files and setting and personal files, do the install and restore > > > everything? I have spent days setting everything up the way I like it > > > and have it working perfectly for me. The bootloader is on hda on the > > > MBR. Any ideas guys??? Now to figure out what I can do with the extra > > > 120 gig drive..... > > > > There are several tools that you can use to simply copy the partitions over to > > hda, go in and edit the fstab to change the partition mappings and change > > lilo.conf to boot from the new drive and then simply rewrite lilo to the MBR > > and boot and you are now operating off of hda. > > > > Seems to me that it would be easier than trying to reinstall and then restore > > all of your files. -- Johan May this be a good day for learning Registered Linux User #330034 - still learning
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