Re: Lilo not recognizing keyboard SOLVED)

[Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 19:39:54 -0700, Marc wrote in message 
<[🔎] 4F751CFA.1050605@gmail.com>:

> On 03/27/12 03:59, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> > On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:43:45 -0500, Stan wrote in message
> > ..one thing lilo will do, is hop back to the old disk if you make
> > that a menu option.  Found that out trying to boot /dev/md0 rather
> > than dance between /dev/hd{a,b}0. ;o)
> 
> Absolutely!  I left the menu option for the old disk, and even for
> the previous kernel on the old disk.  I had no intentions of removing
> those options until I was sure that I could boot without problems on
> the new disk.
> 
> In fact, I left the menu item for the old boot as the default.  A
> good thing, too.  If linux had not wanted to boot from the new disk
> and I could not select the old boot from the menu because of the USB
> keyboard, I would have been up a creek...  It would have taken me a
> lot longer, with a lot more trouble, to find out that I needed to
> change the BIOS settings and find the correct setting.
> 
> Now that everything is definitely booting correctly, I have changed 
> Lilo's default to the new drive, but the menu option for the old
> drive is still there, and will probably remain until I install a new
> kernel. Then I will have my current kernel on the new disk as my
> backup option.
> 
> ALWAYS have a plan!

.._and_, an healthy bunch of back-up plans, most plans fails,
and you need at least one plan that works, to get away with 
it. ;o)

-- 
..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen
...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry...
  Scenarios always come in sets of three: 
  best case, worst case, and just in case.