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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: shuiend on 24 June 2002, 21:51
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i have 2 hard drives both on the same ide cable. the cable is in the main ide slot. i need to know what the 2 hard drives would be call i believe the master would be hda and the slave hda1 but i am not sure. i need to know this so i can edit my lilo.conf to be able to boot off the second hard drive
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i figured it out it is hdb. but now the second hd is set up as first partion /boot, second partion swap, and third partion /, in lilo would i put
other=/dev/hdb3
label="suse"
would that allow me to boot suse of hdb
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depends if you want it to boot from / or /boot
why do you have a /boot partition on there anyway? i don't have one but i don't know.
hdb3 is right for if you want to boot from yr third partition, but hdb1 is right if you want to boot from /boot. Anybody add anything?
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Calum, it is best to use a /boot partition. Even if you don't put "/boot" on a separate partition most distros still create that directory and put the kernel, the initrd and other boot stuff there. On older RedHat releases it was actually called "/bpart" but they changed the name to /boot. Most systems, even BSD are set up this way. If they don't name the directory/partition "/boot" it is some similar name that serves the same purpose. The reason it is good to have a boot partition is because some boot loaders have a hard time booting if the kernel is more than 1024 cylinders from the beginning of the drive and with todays larger drives that is a good possibility.
[edit] and obviously you want to put the small /boot partition as the first partition on the drive, or as close to the beginning of the drive as possible.
[edit2] even NT can have problems booting from a large system drive under certain conditions, normally on NT servers you create a smaller system partition (C: @ ~2GB) and create larger non-bootable partitions.
[ June 24, 2002: Message edited by: VoidMain ]
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Originally posted by wild_jester:
i figured it out it is hdb. but now the second hd is set up as first partion /boot, second partion swap, and third partion /, in lilo would i put
other=/dev/hdb3
label="suse"
would that allow me to boot suse of hdb
That's exactly the scheme I use on all of my desktop Linux installs. "/boot" @ 50MB as the first partition. SWAP on the second partition, and "/" as the third partition.