Okay, I have my e-smith server working with the kernel from redhat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) which gives me support for my rocketraid 404 Hightech RAID 5 Card..
Now I want to migrate my e-smith installation across from the /dev/hde device where it was installed onto the /dev/sda virtual scsi device presented by the raid controller.
I have created a partition to act as /boot, a swap, and a huuuuuuge ext3 partition, copying the 3 partition configuration I see on the existing SME install. I can, of course, copy the data across quite happily, and have been mounting /dev/sda3 (the big ext3 partition) on top of /home with no ill effects..
The one that has me concerned is booting up.. can I simply copy the contents of /boot across to the new partition, and change the boot= entry in lilo.conf?
Do I need to add a boot loader to the MBR on the new volume? how do I do that?
Is there a process for making a new emergency boot disk, so that I can have some confidence to change stuff, knowing that I haven't hosed my server in the process?
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