Re: Installing lilo on second hard disk
This won't be a good answer, but I had a friends machine with an IDE drive
on /dev/hda, and a SCSI drive on /dev/sda, and wanted to boot off the
SCSI. I also got that LILO warning, and got around it by unplugging the
IDE drive, booting, running lilo, then plugging it back in again and
booting again. Everything worked fine.
I'm positive theres a better answer, but if you can utilise this temporary
measure it might work.
Corey Popelier.
On Mon, 21 May 2001 mdevin@ozemail.com.au wrote:
> Basically I am trying to copy everything over to my second hard disk and
> then set up to make this the boot device. I know how to change the boot
> device in my bios.
>
> The problem seems to be getting lilo on the second hardisk. What I
> tried was this:
> Edited the /hd2/etc/lilo.conf and changed the following:
> boot=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1
> root=/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part5
> install=/hd2/boot/boot.b
> map=/hd2/boot/map
>
> Nb. bus1 is the second harddisk
>
> Then I tried running
> /sbin/lilo -C /hd2/etc/lilo.conf
> but it gives the following errors:
> Warning: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 is not on the first disk
> Added Linux *
> Skipping /vmlinuz.old
> Fatal: creat /boot/boot.1601: Read-only file system
>
> Note that I have my current /boot (first HD) mounted ro in case I stuff
> something.
>
> If I try booting from the second hard disk, it does nothing. It doesn't
> even come up with the mbr or lilo on the screen.
>
> So then I tried this:
> /sbin/lilo -C /hd2/etc/lilo.conf -i /hd2/boot/boot.b -s /hd2/boot/boot.1601
> it gives the following output:
> Ignoring entry 'install'
> Warning: /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1 is not on the first disk
> Added Linux *
> Skipping /vmlinuz.old
>
> But still it won't boot from the second HD - no mbr or lilo messages
> when trying to boot.
>
> How do you install lilo on the second hard disk?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions
> Mark.
>
>
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