On Thu, May 04, 2006 at 07:24:47AM -0500, Mitch Marks wrote: > 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: > <snip> > 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,
When I do this, it is usually necessary to modify boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab. You will need to run grub-install again if you had it installed in the MBR of the old disk (you didn't say if it was left powered up). I would create additional entries in menu.lst until you have it booting successfully in the new configuration, then remove the old entries. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.com http://www.digbyt.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
