Re: [newbie] Grub help?
Hi Tom. Thanks for replying. Okay. I've got it setup like this: WD-10 megger - hda with /swap, /, /usr, and /home as partitions. added: an old Seagate 1 gig HD, as hdd1. My Zip drive is indeed, hdc4... So whats the easiest way to change the old Seagate (hdd1) to hda, and my WD (hda) to hdd1? Without losing data, or having to reinstall? Can I just swap entries in /etc/fstab? Only thing I know for sure is there's more to it than just changing fstab. When I was runnin 7.1 I swap'd master for slave on second ide (ie, no bootable drive was involved). I made the changes in fstab, before shutting down to make the hardware change. Bootup failed. I put my install CD in and chose upgrade, but didn't select any additional packages. A few minutes later I had a working system again :) So while the hardware change was successful, I really don't know all that was involved. Since you are swap'g the bootable drive around, you'll surely have to re-install lilo/grub. 'Course, an upgrade will take care of that too. I believe you'd be better off getting advice from someone who's actually swap'd boot drives tho. BTW, when you do swap, don't forget to change the drives' jumpers ;) -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay
[newbie] Grub help?
Okay, I installed an old Seagate IDE drive as "slave" on my 2nd IDE channel off my motherboard. My Zip drive is master on this channel. This works fine so far, I've got an icon "dos" on my KDE desktop that lets me look right into the DOS hard drive, and I can cp, rm, mv, even view pics and anims off this drive... Now. How do I go about making Grub use this MS-DOS hard drive, so that I can pick it from the Grub load menu and boot directly into DOS? Note that it is DOS and NOT Windoze... (the drive is already setup with MS-DOS from an old computer I found it in; autoexec.bat, config.sys, command.com, etc, etc, is there) I just added it so I could play some old DOS style games like Ultima, Warcraft, etc,... Thanks as always! -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie] Grub help?
You need to clarify: Are you runnin Windoze on hda1, Linux in a partition on hda, or a 'second' drive (hdb), and then DOS on that 'added' (3rd?, hdd) harddrive? (your zip drive being hdc) I'd guess from what you wrote, that the added DOS drive isn't bootable, not because it's a LILO or GRUB problem, but because DOS expects (demands) to be hda, ie, the *first* bootable drive. If you do have Windows = W9x on hda, edit MSDOS.SYS to 'BootGUI=0' and you'll have a *pure* DOS 7.x environment, no Winblows overhead present, suitable for runnin *any* old DOS game, even the ones on that 'added' drive. Your system will boot to a C:\ prompt, type 'win' to start W9x (no different than with Winblows = 3.x). The drive you added is still viable space for either Winblows or Linux, but it ain't bootable unless you wanna make it hda. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay On Fri, 06 Oct 2000, you wrote: Okay, I installed an old Seagate IDE drive as "slave" on my 2nd IDE channel off my motherboard. My Zip drive is master on this channel. This works fine so far, I've got an icon "dos" on my KDE desktop that lets me look right into the DOS hard drive, and I can cp, rm, mv, even view pics and anims off this drive... Now. How do I go about making Grub use this MS-DOS hard drive, so that I can pick it from the Grub load menu and boot directly into DOS? Note that it is DOS and NOT Windoze... (the drive is already setup with MS-DOS from an old computer I found it in; autoexec.bat, config.sys, command.com, etc, etc, is there) I just added it so I could play some old DOS style games like Ultima, Warcraft, etc,... Thanks as always!
Re: [newbie] Grub help?
Tom Brinkman wrote: You need to clarify: Are you runnin Windoze on hda1, Linux in a partition on hda, or a 'second' drive (hdb), and then DOS on that 'added' (3rd?, hdd) harddrive? (your zip drive being hdc) I'd guess from what you wrote, that the added DOS drive isn't bootable, not because it's a LILO or GRUB problem, but because DOS expects (demands) to be hda, ie, the *first* bootable drive. If you do have Windows = W9x on hda, edit MSDOS.SYS to 'BootGUI=0' and you'll have a *pure* DOS 7.x environment, no Winblows overhead present, suitable for runnin *any* old DOS game, even the ones on that 'added' drive. Your system will boot to a C:\ prompt, type 'win' to start W9x (no different than with Winblows = 3.x). The drive you added is still viable space for either Winblows or Linux, but it ain't bootable unless you wanna make it hda. -- Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] Galveston Bay Hi Tom. Thanks for replying. Okay. I've got it setup like this: WD-10 megger - hda with /swap, /, /usr, and /home as partitions. added: an old Seagate 1 gig HD, as hdd1. My Zip drive is indeed, hdc4... So whats the easiest way to change the old Seagate (hdd1) to hda, and my WD (hda) to hdd1? Without losing data, or having to reinstall? Can I just swap entries in /etc/fstab? Thanks! ;-) -- /\ DarkLord \/
