Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
>
> 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
Did it.. :(
for some reason it acts as if I have not even wrote to the mbr. This is
the first time I have run into this.. I have a feeling this is hardware
problem or I am over looking something..
Jeff
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