[ale] Quick question about HD and LILO

Michael at celery.atl.mediaone.com Michael at celery.atl.mediaone.com
Fri Jun 11 09:33:46 EDT 1999


> I moved my second hard drive from the secondary IDE controller and made it
> the second device on the primary IDE controller.  Linux is located on the
> moved hard drive.  I try to boot up Linux and get a kernel boot error.  I
> assumed that would happen.  How can I fix this?  I just loaded linux a few
> days ago so if I had to redo the install it wouldn't be a big deal.

In adition to all the advice from Jim and others about rerunning lilo, you also
need to edit your /etc/fstab.  You have moved /dev/hdc to /dev/hdb, so every
reference to /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab needs to be changed to /dev/hdb.

--Michael






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