Re: LILO and 2 disks
> Hi *!
>
> Does anybody know a checked way to do the following?
>
> hda1 and hdb1 have the same files structure. hdb1 is mounted under /mnt
> How to make LILO boot after removing hda completly and connecting hdb as
> primary master (so it becomes hda)?
> I know I can make a boot floppy, switch disks, boot from floppy and then run
> "lilo", but is there a way to make without the floppy? I tried
>
> cd /mnt
> sbin/lilo -r /mnt -b /dev/hdb1
>
> But that complained about hdb (or hdb1 - I don't remember now) not being on
> the first disk and did not work - I got
>
> LI 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 ......
>
> after reboot.
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Marcin
>
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>
Try to change your lilo.conf like this.
map=/mnt/boot/map
install=/mnt/boot/boot.b
I am not 100% sure whether this works.
A different method that may work is to do a change root (chroot) to /mnt and run lilo.
Jo
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