Re: hdd change
On Sat, 22 Jun 2002 12:47:39 +0100
matthew@sackman.co.uk (Matthew Sackman) wrote:
> That would work fine. However, I have done this kind of thing a fair few
> times now, and getting the new hard disc to boot when you've done this
> kind of thing and then removed the first hard disc is a bit a pain at
> times. You are supposed to be able to run lilo in a chroot jail but I
> can't reliably get it to work.
>
> Therefore make sure that you have a working boot floppy and use that
> (specify root=/dev/hdxx as necessary) and then when you've system has
> booted off the new hard disc, set up lilo.conf and then run lilo.
>
> Of course this assumes that you are using lilo. I would imagine the same
> advice applies if you are running GRUB instead.
It doesn't. Grub can be installed from another disk, after which you
just need to edit {Temporary_mountpoint}/boot/grub/menu.lst. You can
even get away with not editing that file, if you have memorized the
exact sequences of command to issue at the Grub commandline.
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