Subject: Re: Moving Linux hard drive to another machine. Possible?
From: Ed Jaeger (ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com)
Date: Thu May 11 2000 - 12:39:24 MDT
Well...
You can't really have two definitions for the same mount point - I'm not
sure what would happen...
What you can do is pass a mount point in BootX and start single user if
for some reason you have to put your now-hdf disk back into the old
machine and use it as hda. This would allow you to start up with the
disk as hda, edit /etc/fstab, then telinit 3 to go into regular multi-user:
(in BootX arguments box)
root=/dev/hda7 single (remaining arguments you already have..)
"William K. Gibson" wrote:
>
> on 5/11/00 2:09 PM, Ed Jaeger at ed.jaeger@bgcorp.com wrote:
>
> > Mount points are in /etc/fstab - edit this file & fix the "hdaX"
> > references to "hdfX", where X is the partition number.
>
> Oh yeah, duh.
>
> But can I simply include hdf7 for example and leave the hda7 entry in case
> there is a problem during the transition? Or will this complicate the boot
> process? I figure it won't but why not ask before I undertake the venture.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --William K. Gibson
> 1stDesk Systems
> firstdesk@columbus.rr.com
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