I have recently bought a new 80G disk, and an ATA133 card to
attach it to. Plus, I have bought a disk caddy to be able to
use my old 20G disk as a removable disk, so I can use it for
backups instead of CDs. As such, the new disk is hde, while
the old one is still hda.
I have carefully read up the various instructions for moving to
a new disk, and have copied everything over, changed fstab and
lilo.conf, etc. (I am having some problems with the BIOS, getting
it to do what I want, but that is another matter...)
I have had to go through all sorts of contortions to get things
going - including multiple boots in rescue mode, and "install" and
"upgrade" runs over the disks as well. I have almost got it all
done, now, but noticed a few peculiarities along the way that I
don't understand:
1. When trying to install the bootloader on hde, I would get the
following error (in rescue mode, or in any other mode):
Installation of bootloader failed. The following error occured:
Fatal: stat /dev/hde: No such file or directory.
When in rescue mode, I checked and /dev/hde WAS THERE, and I could
stat it manually. What was going on?
2. At some point, the system modified my lilo.conf file and added
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80 OR:
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x81
AND:
other=/dev/hde1
label=windows
table=/dev/hde
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
What do these things mean? (I later had to remove the
"map-drive" bits to make windows boot.)
ALSO: On my new disk I want to use a /boot partition,while on
the old disk /boot was just a part of the root partition. What
do I need to change for this to work?
Brian Schroeder
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