Re: Moving Linux hard drive to another machine. Possible?


Subject: Re: Moving Linux hard drive to another machine. Possible?
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 12:09:54 MDT


Mount points are in /etc/fstab - edit this file & fix the "hdaX"
references to "hdfX", where X is the partition number.

"William K. Gibson" wrote:
>
> 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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