liloing hdc as hda

["Richard E. Hawkins" <hawk@hawkins.cba.uni.edu>]

I managed to scrounge up an additional identiacl hard disk to replace 
my dying disk.  dd seems to have successfully duplicated the drive; 
they look the same. To write to the drive, I have it as the primary on 
the secondary controller.


I switched cables, and it wouldn't boot, so I presume the boot sector 
doesn't get copied by 
dd?  I copied /etc/lilo.config to /ec/lilo.config.c, and changed only 
the boot line to 

   boot=/dev/hdc

while leaving the old information about hda in the entries.  Upon 
making it the primary, I get

   LIL-

I could solve this easily by booting from a floppy, but that doesn't 
seem to be an option, as something went horribly wrong when I set the 
password in the bios.

So how do I boot from hda and setup hdc to be hada?

rick, now stumped

p.s.  should syslogd really go to 100% cycle usage when / switches to 
ro status due to disk errors?  I understand it's trying to write, but 
is this a bug?


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Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.   
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