Re: switching from hdc to hda

[Aaron Konstam <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:24:58AM -0500, Justin Zygmont wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knows a solution to this, I have a drive running
> as /dev/hdc, I want to switch it as /dev/hda.  The question is how to let
> lilo to update itself, after changing lilo.conf, running lilo would say
> hda not found because the drive doesn't exist to be able to write to it
> yet.  If I switch the drive then it won't boot even with a boot disk, it
> says no init found, and from a rescue disk the drive has to mounted so the
> path changes and lilo cannot find it's files.
> 
> thanks...
Change the lilo.conf , but so not run lilo.
You switch the drives. The boot using the linux rescue option to boot the
system . Then run lilo with either -r option or after running chroot to
the appropriate directory.
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