Very Computer

I have been happily using Red Hat on a dual boot system with Win95 for over
a couple of years now, but I've never made any changes to the hard drive
partition structure in that time.  I decided that it would be nice to create
a new partition for my Linux configuration (taking away some of my current
Windows FAT32 partition).  Everything is on a single hard drive.  I realize
that by creating a new partition which will be hda2, I will offset my Linux
boot partition by 1 changing it from hda6 to hda7.  I am currently using
LILO for regular booting.

What changes do I need to make to be able to boot Linux after this change?
Should I create another option in lilo.conf for booting from /devb/hda7, run
lilo and then go ahead and make the changes, or is there another option?

Thanks.

Mike

On Mon, 28 May 2001 23:47:57 -0600, Michael E. Adams
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Quote:> Everything is on a single hard drive.  I realize
> that by creating a new partition which will be hda2, I will offset my Linux
> boot partition by 1 changing it from hda6 to hda7.  I am currently using
> LILO for regular booting.
> What changes do I need to make to be able to boot Linux after this change?
> Should I create another option in lilo.conf for booting from /devb/hda7, run
> lilo and then go ahead and make the changes, or is there another option?

In addition to changing lilo.conf, you'll need to edit /etc/fstab as well.
Also, make sure you have a rescue boot/root floppy disk handy, you could
very easily end up needing it.

--NY