[TriLUG] urg. wrong drive booting

[H Brett Bolen]

does hda have lilo on it?  I do not know why hdc would
be prefered over hda -- maybe hda's lilo is telling it to
boot root off of hdc.

If you get a lilo prompt you can do a

> boot: linux root=/dev/hda2

This is from

> http://home.att.net/~lilo-boot/faq_er.htm

There would probably be a way to do this for other os's
too if you dug deep enough.

if all else fails ( and you have backups), then you
can try to boot off of a dos floppy and try `fdisk /mbr`

b


Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
> i'm trying to zap my old laptop drive before returning it,
> but the laptop always insists on booting from it when it's
> in the superbay (hdc) instead of the normal disk (hda).
> 
> is there some command-line 'boot:' argument i can use to tell
> linux to boot from hda instead of hdc?
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