LILO after putting HDD into a new comp

dj_relentless · 06-11-2002, 06:59 PM

HI All

Just wanting to make sure I'm getting this right.
If've got a new computer that comes standard with Win2k on the primary master.
I throw my old drive in as primary slave.
Can I simply throw in a boot disk, edit lilo so it knows where the boot partitions are supposed to be and update the mbr on the primary master and have it relatively the same way as it was before? I was thinking win2k might pack a sad if I do this..
Or am I reading this the totally wrong way?

finegan · 06-11-2002, 09:14 PM

Well you're also going to have to change /etc/fstab so that The kernel knows what drive partitions to mount and where (assuming the Linux drive wasn't /dev/hdb before), after that yeah you're basically on the right track.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thymox · 06-13-2002, 05:40 AM

AFAIK Win2k isn't able to read Linux partitions at all, so even if you had 2 Windows drives, 1PM + 1SM, and then put in your Linux drive as PS, Windows wouldn't be any the wiser.

You should be OK just putting the drive in and editing your fstab and lilo files and then running lilo (to put the settings in place), but unless your graphics hardware is the same, you will also need to reconfigure X - although this isn't hard if you know what you've got in your box.

Nelleh · 06-13-2002, 07:05 AM

As you are not changing the location of the windows HD if I read correctly (ie its still the primary master) there should be no problems at all from that perspective. Windows is thick as pigmuck when it comes to anything non MS being installed alongside it. It is only if you move the windows disk to a different location that you might run into problems (should be a 5 minute job to sort out though).