[ale] Quick question about HD and LILO

[jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu (Jim Kinney)]

Oops, I forgot to mention the fstab edit. If you forget this, it won't
find all of its parts on reboot. 

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 Michael at celery.atl.mediaone.com wrote:

> > I moved my second hard drive from the secondary IDE controller and made it
> > the second device on the primary IDE controller.  Linux is located on the
> > moved hard drive.  I try to boot up Linux and get a kernel boot error.  I
> > assumed that would happen.  How can I fix this?  I just loaded linux a few
> > days ago so if I had to redo the install it wouldn't be a big deal.
> 
> In adition to all the advice from Jim and others about rerunning lilo, you also
> need to edit your /etc/fstab.  You have moved /dev/hdc to /dev/hdb, so every
> reference to /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab needs to be changed to /dev/hdb.
> 
> --Michael
>