Re: Upgrading a server to FC5

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> Look at the tune2fs -j option.

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

> If the BIOS can boot from the hard drive, then it should not be a
> problem. The only thing that you may have to be careful of is that
> you may need a /boot partition that is conpletely below the 1028
> cylinder boundary, depending on how old the BIOS is. If the system
> only has SCSI drives, it could be that the BIOS does not support
> booting from SCSI drives, and that SCSI controllers do not have
> their own BIOS. It is also possible that both controllers have their
> own BIOS, and that they do not work well together.  You may have to
> do some research to set things up so the correct one is booting the
> system.

Yes, I think this is the case, when BIOS doesn't support booting from
SCSI drives. On that machine there is also an IDE drive /dev/hdc do you
think that putting GRUB on it's Master Boot Sector will allow it to boot
from an SCSI partition?

Thanks for help

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