Hello all, I have an installation of Sarge, being used as a web server primarily, on hardware originally designed as a Windows desktop machine. This was installed on a spare disk we had sitting around, after some sort of drive failure on the previous running system.
So we left the bad disk in place (on the primary data connector on the first IDE channel) in the hope of being able to recover it later; and the new disk is on the secondary data connector on the second IDE cable (the one that also goes to the CDROM), and is sitting unfastened in the open case. The new disk thus shows up as /dev/hdd . We never did recover the old disk, but have done some restore-from-backup and some site-re-creation on the new installation, and are ready to go forward with that and forget the old disk. Now I'd like to properly fasten down the new disk and close up the case, etc. Probably the old disk should be taken out and the new one put in its place, in the main drive bay and on the main IDE cable. .... Now it's booting from /dev/hdd1. Will it detect that there's no drive there anymore and choose the drive it does find? Or should I prepare it beforehand? I haven't previously dealt with re-targeting the booting. Is there more to it than editing the menu.lst file? Currently the bottom of the /boot/grub/menu.lst file looks like this: ## ## End Default Options ## title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hdd1 ro initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386 savedefault boot title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.4.27-2-386 (recovery mode) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27-2-386 root=/dev/hdd1 ro single initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.4.27-2-386 savedefault boot ### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST Can I just imitate these entries but make it /dev/hda1? Would it be better to just change these, or to leave them and add copies edited to use dev/hda1? Thanks in advance for any advice you can give, == Mitch -- Mitchell Marks CUIP & WIT Tech Coordinator CUIP: Chicago Public Schools / Univ. of Chicago Internet Project WIT: Web Institute for Teachers http://cuip.net/cuip http://tech.cuip.net/ http://wit.uchicago.edu/wit 5640 S Ellis Ave AAC-007, Univ of Chgo, Chgo IL 60637 Phones: Area 773 (O) 702-6041 (F) 702-8212 (H) 241-7166 (C) 620-6744 Email: Primary address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CPS: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alternate UofC addresses (use especially to report problems with CUIP\WIT mail!): [EMAIL PROTECTED] and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Off-campus (ISP) address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Broken windows, empty hallways, Pale dead moon in the sky streaked with gray Human kindness is overflowing And I think it's going to rain today Written by Randy Newman, first recorded by Judy Collins (1966) 11 cover versions listed at http://www.secondhandsongs.com/song/1417.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
