[nmglug] Using Media Bay Devices In Dell 600m With Fedora Core 3

[Sam Noble]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 22:22 -0600, William D. Nystrom wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> Your suggestions solved the problem for me.  I've now been able to boot
> with the media bay hard drive installed and was able to successfully mount
> it and explore it.  Thanks for your suggestions.
> 
> I guess this solution now raises a couple of other questions.  When I get
> through transferring my files over to my primary drive, one option I am
> considering is moving that primary hard drive over to the media bay hard
> drive caddy.  The hard drive that I am working with is actually a second
> hard drive that I bought for this laptop.  I also picked up a couple of
> primary hard drive caddies and the media bay caddy off of ebay to make my
> experimenting easier.  So, the original plan which I had in mind was to
> have the original laptop hard drive set up for my family in the primary
> hard drive bay and then have the second hard drive which has my stuff on
> it set up in the media bay.  Then, I set up the BIOS to first check for a
> bootable media bay hard drive so that I boot from it when it is installed.
> 
> So, I'm assuming that the "label" approach in fstab and grub.conf would
> work in either of the two locations i.e. primary hdd bay or media hdd bay.
> I'm assuming that my current setup would not work in either bay and that
> if I switch my primary hdd over to the media bay that I would have to edit
> fstab and grub.conf and switch hda to hdc.  Does this make sense or have I
> misunderstood what is going on?
> 

Sounds like you've got the gist. This is I suppose what the use of the
e2labels is supposed to be. You might consider using labels that are
unique to each disk?

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