I am confused about what you did :
To install lilo you need a running system. If you replace you hard drive "on the spot",
that means you probably had to install your new hard drive somewhere else than hda.
Right ?
At the very least, at the time you run lilo, your /boot points to the location
of your old boot directory.
Keep in mind that at the time you are running lilo, it understands the CURRENT
directory structure NOT the new one yet.
Say you installed your new hard drive on /dev/hd_x
mounted on /new_hd
You copy your old /boot under /new_hd/boot
Then you need to put this in your lilo.conf (SAVE the old one as you will
need it after reboot) :
#where lilo will put the MBR with respect to the current system
boot=/dev/hd_x
#where are the files needed by lilo to build its tables.
map=/new_hd/boot/map
install=/new_hd/boot/boot.b
image=/new_hd/boot/bzImage-2.2.13-1
Be careful : after reboot, you will need to copy your old lilo.conf back in place
before you run lilo again. In fact you should do it right away and run lilo
again to make sure.
Philippe
Jeff Smelser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
> >
> > what device is your boot drive ?
>
> /dev/hda
> >
> > can you send your lilo.conf ?
>
> Well, its kind of down right now.. so memory:
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
> image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.13-1
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda8
> read-only
>
> I get no lilo at all. So it sounds to me its not loading MBR at all
>
> > Philippe
> >
> >
> > Jeff Smelser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I am trying to replace my /boot drive. I ran lilo on it to boot off the
> > > new drive, but when I reboot, no lilo or anything. It just sits there. I
> > > can boot from my mkbootdisk just fine. Can someone point me in the right
> > > direction?
> > >
> > >
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