Rescanning IDE bus.

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Wed, 5 May 1999 07:01:15 +0100 (BST)

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I know this is insane, and will probably make my computer explode,
however, is there any way to rescan the IDE bus?
I have in the past booted a system to upgrade, taken it single user,
mounted all filesystems readonly, then chrooted a bash to a nfs server,
pulled the old hard disk, put in the new one, dd'd a pre-written filesystem
onto the new disk, (with linear set in it's lilo)
rebooted, refdisked to get the first partition ending in a sane place,
then rebooted again, and continued installing.
It was a laptop, and it would have been really annoying to make a
PCMCIA supporting bootdisk, with NFS, and network drivers.
So, is it possible to skip the reboot?

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