[LUG] Change of H/D assignments

["Ray Smith" <raysmith@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've just brought a CD/RW and am taking out my second drive which linux resides
on currently booting from /dev/hdc2 which is secondary master.
I'll be setting it to primary slave and setting my new cd writer as secondary
master leaving my DVD drive as secondary slave.

I know that the assignment for lilo will change by doing this but how will I be
able to boot into linux after I have done this in order to reconfigure lilo.
I'm running Mandrake 7.2 at the moment & select which o/s to boot from the
menu. Can I tell linux to boot from /dev/hdb2 (I'm assuming that will be
correct device as the my backup drive I'm removing is set up as hdb normally
and linux is on the second partition of the drive) or do I need to edit the
loli.conf file and rerun lilo before altering the drives around ?

Failing that, if I just bung it in & then run update from the mandrake boot cd
should that redetect everything & sort it out for me ( Hey ! guess who doesn't
really like getting his hands dirty ?)
Kudzu won't do it because I disabled it because it always removed my printer
configuration even though it was still plugged in.

Ray of sunny Plymouth.
If the right hand side of the brain controls the left hand side of the body;
then only left handed people can be said to be in their right minds !


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