Hello, Why do you need to do this? It shouldn't matter, should it? You can boot off of any drive just the same, regardless of the letter. If you have a device attached to hde, the bios will automatically make it "c" and bootable. Better yet, with the latest SuSE, it will boot from anything. Now, if you really need to swap boot devices, there is a kernel option to do so, that is not enabled by default. It will rearrange the hdx's, but you're probably on your own, as there probably aren't that many people who use it anymore. Your email is a little confusing, though. Are you maybe just trying to swap drives and need to know how to boot the new configuration? That's a different story. Ron --- "Alvaro A. Novo" <novo@uiuc.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, S. Smith wrote:
I'm trying to install SuSE on a new computer that has 2 ide hard drives and 1 Promise Ultra66 drive.
The thing that I am trying to accomplish is having the ultra66 drive be /dev/hda. Currently it is /dev/hde. With the ide cables, I can physicallyange the order the block devices are assigned.
Is there a way to set the kernel to change the device order on boot-up?
Can't you go to your BIOS and select the "boot up" hard-drive? IIRC, I did this once... maybe not?!
Alvaro Novo SuSE 6.4 Kernel 2.2.16 KDE 2 - Beta 4
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I want to be able to boot with LILO. I can't get lilo to install onto /dev/hde, and using aboot disk is too slow ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Heron" <heroron@yahoo.com> To: "Alvaro A. Novo" <novo@uiuc.edu>; "S. Smith" <butch@null.net>; "SuSE Linux English" <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2000 16:46 Subject: Re: [SLE] change dev order
Hello,
Why do you need to do this? It shouldn't matter, should it? You can boot off of any drive just the same, regardless of the letter. If you have a device attached to hde, the bios will automatically make it "c" and bootable. Better yet, with the latest SuSE, it will boot from anything.
Now, if you really need to swap boot devices, there is a kernel option to do so, that is not enabled by default. It will rearrange the hdx's, but you're probably on your own, as there probably aren't that many people who use it anymore.
Your email is a little confusing, though. Are you maybe just trying to swap drives and need to know how to boot the new configuration? That's a different story.
Ron
--- "Alvaro A. Novo" <novo@uiuc.edu> wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, S. Smith wrote:
I'm trying to install SuSE on a new computer that has 2 ide hard drives and 1 Promise Ultra66 drive.
The thing that I am trying to accomplish is having the ultra66 drive be /dev/hda. Currently it is /dev/hde. With the ide cables, I can physicallyange the order the block devices are assigned.
Is there a way to set the kernel to change the device order on boot-up?
Can't you go to your BIOS and select the "boot up" hard-drive? IIRC, I did this once... maybe not?!
Alvaro Novo SuSE 6.4 Kernel 2.2.16 KDE 2 - Beta 4
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I would interested in learning if LILO can be changed to boot with a different drive. I remember this particular when I put SuSE 6.3 on my Windows system but LILO won't work since my bootable drive is on the promise ATA66 controller and my motherboard IDE channel is used for the DVD drive. I'm currently using LOADLIN from a windows shortcut. I would like to use LILO. I saw in the recent issue of Linux Magazine a brief article on a GNU version of System Commander (a OS boot manager). Does anyone know what that is and how well it works? I'll look the URL when I get home from work tonight. Christopher Reimer On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, S. Smith wrote:
I want to be able to boot with LILO. I can't get lilo to install onto /dev/hde, and using aboot disk is too slow
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