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,

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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" <MDCleary@dgexchange.dg.com> wrote:

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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 on 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

Haven't heard from the list all day..........server probs? I installed the new hard drive last night - seemed to go smoothly until I tried to reboot. Win98 hung at the logo screen & would only boot into safe mode. If I disconnected the drive, it booted fine. Linux booted just fine with the drive connected.....:) (not real surprising). Maxtor has not been much help...but at least it was a toll-free number. Anyone ever run across this before? I've installed lots of drives on various machines and have not seen this happen before. Any idea would be greatly appreciated? Thanks, 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Mearl Danner [mailto:jmdanner@samford.edu] Sent: Monday, June 19, 2000 3:00 PM To: Cleary, Mike Subject: RE: [SLE] Move to new hard drive Could be if you cable up the new drive on the secondary controller and use PQMagic to copy the linux partition to the new drive, you could: 1. do the partition copy. 2. Boot to your old linux (nothing's changed, The new drive will be hdc) primary master = hda primary slave = hdb secondary master = hdc secondary slave = hdd Even without the primary slave the secondary master will be hdc. 3. edit the lilo.conf & fstab to reflect the new /dev designation. You might need to add linear to the lilo.conf depending on how your BIOS handles the new drive's geometry. 4. Set up BootMagic to reflect your new setup. I don't think lilo will handle 2 linux boot partitions on separate drives. You can leave the old linux as is and use it if necessary. On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 14:45:12 -0400 "Cleary, Mike" <MDCleary@dgexchange.dg.com> wrote: lilo.conf

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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

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