On Tue, 22 May 2001 07:56:00 +0100 (BST),
Keith Matthews <keith_m@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Mon, 21 May 2001 20:22:30 -0700 (PDT) John <John <jsh_45@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>> This is starting to get to me. I "thought" that
>> pulling the /dev/hdc drives cable and putting it on
>> the first ide controller would be the easy thing to
>> do, but that has been elusive. I've tried almost
>
>More out of curiosity than anything, why did you want to do things this
>way, as opposed to using LILO on the original configuration to boot from
>hdc ?
He is building on hdc using an existing kernel then making hdc the boot
disk, so it becomes hda in a new system. lilo records device numbers
and gets confused by this process.
The easiest method is to create the new system on hdc, do not run lilo,
install the disk as hda, boot a kernel off an emergency floppy using
root on the new hda then run lilo to install after the disk has been
moved to hda. The problem with that approach is fitting the kernel on
a floppy, XFS is too big. The only ways I can see of using an
emergency floppy are by using an ext2 partition on hdc/hda or by
building XFS as a module, but that requires fiddling with initrd,
messy.
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