mdevin@ozemail.com.au writes: > 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 One thing is missing: disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 # Tell LILO to treat the second # disk as if it were the first # disk (BIOS ID 0x80). and one other should be different: root=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 (note the bus0 - because that's where your system wants to get / from when booted from that (now bus1) drive! shamelessly taken from the harddisk-upgrade-howto at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html > Nb. bus1 is the second harddisk -- Tschoe, Get my gpg-public-key here Jens http://gecius.de/gpg-key.txt
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