-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 09 March 2004 04:52 am, Andrew Perrin wrote: > I have a machine that currently has an IDE disk as the boot and / > disk, and everything else is SCSI. I would like to convert this to an > all-SCSI machine, for performance, cleanliness, and fun. I'm writing > for advice on how to do this. > > The kernel (2.4.24) is compiled with scsi and the necessary items so > it should be able to boot from a SCSI disk. My thought is to do > this: > > - Install the new SCSI drive > - Mount partitions as necessary and move files to their new locations > (probably using tar cf - . | (cd /newdrive ; tar xf - )) > - Edit lilo.conf > - lilo > - power down > - Remove IDE drive > - Cross fingers > - Reboot > > My concern is with lilo. How do I tell it to install in the SCSI > disk's MBR, not the current boot disk? In the past, it seems like > I've had trouble with that process. > > Any advice welcome - thanks. >
In my bios I can specify the boot device, scsi or atapi. Also install lilo on the first scsi disk, sda, and tell lilo what the root partition is..sda(x) - -- Greg Madden Debian GNU/Linux -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFATpAJk7rtxKWZzGsRAmL2AKCKJavlGhgKkYDDBM//sET1aHuKZgCfX8it dhcOqAFDmFJj3KTiYC1BhiU= =smj/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
