Strangely enough, I had to disable UDMA in the BIOS before
Windows would boot with this drive connected. I don't know why this
made a difference (I stumbled on it by accident), but in any case disabling
UDMA on a UDMA 66 drive was not acceptable. So I finally just bought
a UDMA 66 controller card & hooked the new drive up to it. I think
the problem must have been my BIOS version (even though I have the latest
available from the motherboard manufacturer).
Linux saw all the drives w/ no problem - somehow I'm not surprised! :)
Now all I have to do is try & move my Linux installation to the new drive...
....which may be the subject of another posting I think.
Thanks to all who responded!
Mike
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-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel_Casey@mail.jbhunt.com [mailto:Daniel_Casey@mail.jbhunt.com]
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 10:37 PM
To: Cleary, Mike
Subject: RE: [SLE] Move to new hard drive
Have you had any success with this?
You may want to create a bootable diskette with fdisk on it to make
sure that win98 can see it?
Are you using LILO? How's it installed?
Also, does Linux see both drives?
Probably some silly questions, but they might help.
"Cleary, Mike"
Thanks - I see what you are saying, but I think my situation is a little different. My Win 98 and Linux are not on separate partitions of the same drive, but are on separate drives. The Win 98 drive is the master on the primary IDE, and the Linux drive is the slave on the primary IDE. What I want to do now is move Linux to the new drive which will be the master on the secondary IDE controller. I guess the safest thing would be to make a boot disk for the current installation, then change lilo.conf to reflect the new drive designation, and hope for the best! :)
Which reminds me, when I installed 6.3, there was no option to make a boot disk, only a "rescue" disk. I know there was some discussion about this on the list, but I don't remember the resolution. I'll check the SuSE site...
Thanks,
Mike
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-----Original Message----- From: Mearl Danner [mailto:jmdanner@samford.edu] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 1:48 PM To: Cleary, Mike Subject: Re: [SLE] Move to new hard drive
When I went to my new "big drive" I put it in as the primary drive on the secondary IDE controller and use BootMagic to select the partition I boot from. That way my Win/linux drive remained the same - /dev/hdax - and I had the luxury of using the old linux to make sure the lilo configuration and the fstab (I seem to always forget those) entries are correct.
After everything is tested, you can do away with the old linux partition
(or
use the space to play with the 2.3/2.4 stuff) and increase your windows partition. I really like having 2 linux partitions on 2 separate drives. Gives me the freedom to try something a bit risky without loosing the whole
deal.
Remember to have a working floopy boot setup "just in case".
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 10:45:02 -0400 "Cleary, Mike"
wrote: I have a dual boot system (Win 98 and SuSE 6.3) w/ Linux on a 3.5 GB drive. For Father's day I got a new 20 GB drive (absolutely no hinting
my part of course - a total surprise......:-) ) and I want to move my Linux installation to the new drive. I have Partition Magic 5.0, so it will be no problem to copy the existing partitions to the new drive (although it may take a while!). I am keeping the 3.5 GB drive, but am removing an old 1 GB drive and therefore drive letters will change. My question is how best to modify LILO so I'll be able to boot from the new drive without destroying my ability to boot from the old drive if necessary. My current
on lilo.conf
includes "lilo boot= /dev/hdb3" along w/ a couple of different kernels. Could I just simply add a "third" kernel (actually pointing to the same kernel image) but change the boot path to /dev/hdXX (whatever the drive turns out to be)?
Any thoughts, ideas, warnings?
TIA,
Mike
Michael Cleary UNIX Qualification and Commands Data General, a Division of EMC2 62 T.W. Alexander Dr. Research Triangle Park, NC mdcleary@dg-rtp.dg.com (919) 248-6033
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