slave->master

[Paul_Melson@keykertusa.com]

>I had a machine with two harddrives in it where the slave had Linux on 
it. The
>MBR had LILO on it. I removed the master. Booting therefore is a bit
>complicated.
>
>How do you turn a Linux slave drive into a Linux master drive? I tried 
changing
>/etc/fstab, moving it to master position, and setting the pins on the 
drive to
>master but the BIOS wouldn't be game to that. It stalled on detecting the
>drive.

That's actually a good start.  You'll need to grab a DOS/Win9x floppy and 
run `fdisk /mbr` with that drive set to master.  After that you'll need to 
re-install LILO to the MBR.  That and the fstab changes you've made are 
really all you have to do.

PaulM