New to Debian, boot problems
Hello all,
I'm new to Debian, used to use RedHat. I installed Debian potato (CD
from LSL) along with a new hard drive (installed as 2nd (slave) IDE)
recently, and I made the mistake of placing all of Debian, including
the root partition, on the 2nd drive. Now, unfortunately, LILO won't
boot to the slave drive. I have to boot from the boot floppy I
thankfully didn't skip making during the install.
I would strongly prefer to be able to boot from the hard drive, using
LILO to manage booting Debian and a legacy OS. I would prefer to not
reinstall from the CDs, since I would rather not have to configure
pnp, X, etc. again.
The only other idea I have is to make an ext2 partition on hda, make
it bootable, copy all the files that would be in a root partition
over, then make lilo boot from there. I already have ext2 partitions
on hda, left over from a RedHat install. My Debian install on hdb
consists of /, /usr, and /home partitions.
How workable does this sound? Has anyone else done something like
this? Am I completely insane or missing something obvious?
Yours in Debian,
=wl
--
Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer
"They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of
SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"
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