[TriLUG] Serial ATA

[Timothy A. Chagnon]

On Mon, 2004-02-16 at 13:54, Joseph Tate wrote:
> Timothy A. Chagnon wrote:
> 
> > I've had to do this before with installations on secondary drives.  It
> > loads the kernel, but panics when root isn't where it thinks it is.  If
> > you just want to get it going, change the root=/dev/hd?? kernel line
> > option to whatever your old hard drive & partition is now called.
> 
> That probably will not work totally, unless you have only a single 
> partition.  I.e. /home /boot, etc won't be mounted if they're on 
> separate drives.
> 
> Booting into single user mode (using the corrected root=/dev/hdc1 kernel 
> line) will allow you to hopefully edit /etc/fstab to reflect the new 
> drive devices.  After that, editing lilo.conf and running lilo, you 
> should be able to boot without modifications.

yeah, right on.  I didn't think about fstab'd partions.
-- 
Timothy A. Chagnon <tchagnon at nc.rr.com>