larry lampshade, 2003-Apr-10 04:03 -0700: > I have thinkpad r31 > > I purchased an extra drive, that replaces the CD. Once > I have done the initial install. I intend to put the > new drive in a caddy that replaces the CD-ROM. > > I did a test, I installed woody on the new drive, > which installed where the main drive sits. (I needed > the CD-ROM). I move the drive into the caddy, however > the kernal panic on bootup, and cannot mount the root > file system. I guess because the root file system is > mounted drive on a different IDE channel. > > Is the a configuration file that I can change so that > install the drive in it's new location.
You should consider using grub as your boot loader. You can probably add another boot source in /etc/lilo.conf, but with grub you could specify a boot source at boot time using grub interactively. I haven't made the switch to grub, so I can't tell you exactly how to do this. But check it out. I think that's where your answer is. jc -- Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer Diggin' Debian Admin and User
