Thank you for your reply, John!
You have just opened to me
vast new expanses of ignorance
I didn't know I possessed.
> What do you hope to achieve?
Justice and peace in our time. I also want to themove the current 8GB
master and turn the recently added and thoroughly tested 40GB slave
into master, use it as the "anchor" drive, and keep the bootloader
there. Transient drives will be attracted with an offer of free beer,
snared and put in as slaves for testing, data recovery etc.
Otherwise, I might play with the BIOS boot prority, right? But what
would then happen to partition names? Wouldn't the 40GB switch from
hdb to hda depending on whether a master is there or not? Or is the
jumper-assigned slave status imply hdb no matter what?
> You won't have a working LILO until _after_ your first successful reboot
> whereapon you must run lilo.
Running lilo? Do you mean the bootloader installer OR the bootloader?
It looks like a chicken and egg situation. You probabaly mean that I
have to have the system somehow up and running in the final geometry
BEFORE running lilo will result in the effective installation of the
boot code.
Now I think I remember lilo install runs that failed because my choice
of install target partition and kernel address didn't match the kernel
and disk map files , I guess. But can't I choose / tweak files to
allow for installing wherever I want, and pointing to the kernel I
want? Is it really such a messy proposition?
After all there are some hints in the manpage switch descriptions:
-P {fix|ignore}
Fix (or ignore) `corrupt' partition tables, i.e.,
partition tables with linear and sector/head/cylin-
der addresses that do not correspond.
-m map-file
Use specified map file instead of the default.
> _I_'d replace lilo first,. except I'd not be running it:-)
Uh? What would you _replace_? The lilo package? Why replace it?
> Have a rescue CD handy.
A whole box of them!
>> http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu
Nice pics! The end of the world is not that far, after all. Yuckkk!
Thanks again...
Filippo / SpamHog
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