Making a disk bootable

["Tille, Andreas" <TilleA@rki.de>]

Hello,

I just made a dd-copy of a disk and wanted to boot from the copy.
I used the following /etc/silo.conf:

    partition=1
    root=/dev/sda1
    timeout=100
    read-only

    image=1/vmlinuz
    label=linux

    image=1/vmlinuz.old
    label=linux.old

    image=2/vmlinuz
       label=linuxb
       root=/dev/sdb1

    image=2/vmlinuz.old
    label=linux.old_b

Unfortunately the box did not boot from  /dev/sdb1 (the new disk) even
if the file system etc seem to be correct (it is mountable and all seems
fine).  Did I miss something?

If it should work I will supply the error messages from boot prompt.

Kind regards

         Andreas.