[ale] hard drive horrors

[cegolf at ugholf.net (Chris Egolf)]

On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Jim Philips wrote:

> I have been trying all week to move over to a new 30 gig Western Digital
> hard drive. All Windows files were copied. All Linux files were copied. I
> made tons of rescue disks, boot disks and whatever and armed myself with
> printed copies of how-tos on hard drive upgrades and lilo failures. And
> everything I try is failing.
>  
> 1. made a boot disk with the mkbootdisk utility. This insists on booting
> hda3, but Linux is now on hda2. Editing files on this disk has no effect.
> 

After making this boot disk, I think you need to use the rdev utility to
change the boot device in that kernel.  Check the man page for rdev for
details.
 

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