On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:39:54 -0700, Marc wrote in message
<4f751cfa.1050...@gmail.com>:
> On 03/27/12 03:59, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:43:45 -0500, Stan wrote in message
> > ..one thing lilo will do, is hop back to the old disk if you make
> > that a menu option. Found that out trying to boot /dev/md0 rather
> > than dance between /dev/hd{a,b}0. ;o)
>
> Absolutely! I left the menu option for the old disk, and even for
> the previous kernel on the old disk. I had no intentions of removing
> those options until I was sure that I could boot without problems on
> the new disk.
>
> In fact, I left the menu item for the old boot as the default. A
> good thing, too. If linux had not wanted to boot from the new disk
> and I could not select the old boot from the menu because of the USB
> keyboard, I would have been up a creek... It would have taken me a
> lot longer, with a lot more trouble, to find out that I needed to
> change the BIOS settings and find the correct setting.
>
> Now that everything is definitely booting correctly, I have changed
> Lilo's default to the new drive, but the menu option for the old
> drive is still there, and will probably remain until I install a new
> kernel. Then I will have my current kernel on the new disk as my
> backup option.
>
> ALWAYS have a plan!
.._and_, an healthy bunch of back-up plans, most plans fails,
and you need at least one plan that works, to get away with
it. ;o)
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..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
Scenarios always come in sets of three:
best case, worst case, and just in case.
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