Move /dev/hdd to /dev/hda

[Toke]

O.K.
My work gentoo box was set up to dual boot XP/Gentoo. I had the XP as hda, and gentoo on hdd. Today the XP drive started clacking at powerup and didn't detect. After rebooting a few times I was fortunatly able to get it to detect and let me boot into Gentoo. I realized it's been several months since I booted XP, and decide to ditch it altogether, which isn't a bad thing at all...

So, I ran grub, and set up HD1 as bootable, downed the box and removed the flakey drive. Of course now hdd is HD0, and grub complained, but I edited the lines pointing to HD1,and it let me boot. I ran grub again, using HD0, edited grub.conf, and I'm running.

Now I'm wondering, as much as an exercise of my understanding as anything. Can I move this drive to hda now? I know I'd need to edit fstab, but is there anything else I'd need to change? I'm thinking that would be all, but I don't want to lock myself out of everything.

-John

[iwasbiggs]

I think those are the major ones. Don't forget to get a boot disk handy just in case.
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[Toke]

Altering grub.conf and fstab was all that was needed. Running Windows free!
-john