On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 09:59:21AM +0000, David Goodenough wrote: > On Wednesday 02 December 2009, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > 2. I'm sticking with LILO. I've never "manually" installed a boot > > > loader, only during Debian clean/scratch installations using the Deb > > > installer. The last time I did that was with Woody, like 4 years ago. > > > How do I manually install LILO to the boot sector of the new disk? I'm > > > sure it's simple, I just don't know the command. > > > > > > Thanks so much for your very helpful insight to this point Andrew. > > > > I haven't used lilo in years.. but if I remember right I ran the command > > "lilo" after making any changes to it's config and that would rewrite > > it. > > > If you (or anyone else) is using Grub, simply copying your files across > your files will not work due to the presence of UUIDs in the Grub2 config > files. I have been unable to find the proper procedure for updating those > UUIDs. heh, good point. last time I did this, UUID's were just not typically used. A
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