Re: [newbie] Can I switch my IDE controllers?

2002-08-21 Thread Hal Kellerman
If you haven;t edited anything in the interim (fstab, boot-loader configs,..) just switch back. I recommend that you create a backup copy of anything you edit in the process, that way if you must switch back un-editing what you have done will be easy. Hal - Original Message - From:

Re: [newbie] Can I switch my IDE controllers?

2002-08-20 Thread Hal Kellerman
Although making the changes will not lose any data, I suspect you will have quite a number of problems booting. Almost all OS's assign drive names in a particular order. The boot loader depends on these drive names pointing to the correct drive. The configuration changes you considering will