Subject: Moving Linux hard drive to another machine. Possible?
From: William K. Gibson (firstdesk@columbus.rr.com)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 12:04:18 MDT
Hi, I got two G3 machines. One, an old beige G3 running Yellowdog Champion
1.2, and another B&W G3 running OS 9.
Now that it is possible to access the MacOS from within Yellowdog, I want to
merge the two OSs into one machine. So, I went ahead and ripped the IDE
drive out of the Beige G3 and stuck it onto the bus of the B&W G3 (after
converting it to a slave). I used BootX to boot linux on the installed drive
(which came out as /dev/hdf) and booted off of hdf7.
Everything seemed fine during the boot until sudenly Yellowdog complained
that there was no /dev/hda7 root volume- this is what it was on the Beige
G3. So I am guessing there is some kind of soft wired mount volume
information on the hard drive itself. Is this true? And is it possible to
change this information so that I can perform this transplant?
The reason I want to do this is because it is a lot safer and easier than
backing up the whole drive and reinstalling.
--William K. Gibson
1stDesk Systems
firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
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