> 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 > > -- > +--------------------------------+ The reason we come up with new versions > |Marcin Owsiany | is not to fix bugs. It's the stupidest > |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| reason to buy a new version > +--------------------------------+ I ever heard. - Bill Gates >
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
