root disk moves from PATA to SATA

[Florin Andrei]

Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Florin Andrei <florin <at> andrei.myip.org> writes:
>> I am planning to keep the existing PATA hard-drive and not reinstall FC6 
>> (I will upgrade to FC7 when it comes out), but instead I'll use a 
>> SATA-PATA adapter between drive and mobo. The problem, of course, is 
>> that PATA is /dev/hda while SATA will be /dev/sda
> 
> F7 will use /dev/sda for everything (even PATA) anyway, so maybe a better plan 
> is to wait for F7, do the upgrade (letting Anaconda worry about the hda->sda 
> migration), then do the hardware upgrade.

I was hoping I don't have to wait, but it may happen that way, I can't 
find my XP CD and license, and based on past experience I don't want to 
install Windows after I install Linux - I did that once and Windows took 
unwarranted liberties with the partition table, thereby trashing Linux 
and giving me a serious case of antimicrosoftitis.

So I'd rather just reserve space on the drive for Linux, then install 
Windows in the remaining free space when I find the CD, then go back and 
fully install Linux, with grub on the superblock of the /boot partition. 
This strategy seems to work pretty well.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/