[NTLUG:Discuss] Primary slave drive to primary master drive

[Kevin Brannen]

Billy,

One thing to check is your /etc/fstab file, and possibly your
/etc/lilo.conf file.  As the slave drive, it had disk device names with
/dev/hdc (or maybe hdb) at the front.  As the primary, those will now
have the /dev/hda prefix.  If those 2 config files have the wrong
prefix, that would account for your problem.

You can fix it by putting it back in your old system, changing it, then
bring it down and move the drive; or boot with an emergency boot disk in
the new system, mounting root at /mnt, and fix it there.

There may be other reasons for this, but this is the first thing that
comes to my mind.

HTH,
Kevin


Billy Pate wrote:
> 
> I had a box with 2 drives, primary master had win98 and
> primary slave had linux.  I bought a new system (without a drive) and
> want to make the old slave drive
> (linux) the primary master drive for the new system.
> I changed the jumpers so the BIOS recognizes the drive
> as the primary master and attempted to boot from disk.
> An error comes back with something about an unwriteable
> 03:15 segment ?!?!  I thought I would be able to boot
> into this drive, edit lilo and run it, and the new
> drive would now be bootable - is this not true ?  Do
> I need to reformat the drive and reinstall linux ?  New
> CPU has same processor/speed as old CPU, but changed
> from AT to ATX format.
> 
> I have tried making the drive a slave drive and booting
> into that to run lilo.  At the lilo prompt I type
> linux init=3 in an attempt to boot into linux without
> any Xservers running.  The boot always fails do to some
> gimp or gdm already running error.  My only thoughts
> here are that I switched it from an AT to an ATX, and
> the new box might already have a video card in the
> motherboard, and it is trying to start X twice ?!?!
> 
> Any help/suggestions would be great.
> 
> RH6.0 / AMD K6-2 400 MHz / 128 M RAM
> 
> Thanks,
> -Billy
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