I have 2 hardrives on my thinkpad, one is the internal primary drive seen as hda and another drive in a removable ultrabay 2000 caddy that I can swap with my CDROM. The second drive is seen as hdc.
I like to keep my OS's seperated, so I keep windows on hda and slack on hdc. In order to install slack, I stick it in the hda slot (primary driver) and do a normal install. I boot it to check and see if it installed properly.
After I do an install, I edit and run LILO, fstab, mtab, etc so that everything points to hdc instead of hda. I put the drive back into the ultrabay caddy and stick it back in. The thinkpad lets me choose which disk to boot from, but when I try booting from hdc, all I get is kernel panic. I can also boot from a floppy and specify the root is on hdc, this works. I've tried rewriting the MBR and all the usual LILO tricks, but I can't seem to make it boot from hdc only. Any suggestions on what to try next?
I like to keep my OS's seperated, so I keep windows on hda and slack on hdc. In order to install slack, I stick it in the hda slot (primary driver) and do a normal install. I boot it to check and see if it installed properly.
After I do an install, I edit and run LILO, fstab, mtab, etc so that everything points to hdc instead of hda. I put the drive back into the ultrabay caddy and stick it back in. The thinkpad lets me choose which disk to boot from, but when I try booting from hdc, all I get is kernel panic. I can also boot from a floppy and specify the root is on hdc, this works. I've tried rewriting the MBR and all the usual LILO tricks, but I can't seem to make it boot from hdc only. Any suggestions on what to try next?
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