That won't work if there isn't a valid boot record on the mirror drive.
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Duane Clark wrote:
> Perhaps unplug your primary drive, plug your mirror in its place, and
> try booting. Depending on how you made your mirror, you might not even
> need the floppy. But in either case, you can now make your mirror
> bootable, and not worry about the floppy. Once it is bootable, put it
> back as the secondary disk and reconnect the primary drive, and you are
> all set.
>
> And if you don't trust floppies, download this very handy bootable CD
> image and burn a bootable CDROM. It will let you mount the HD and run
> lilo to make it bootable, and is a valuable tool to have around in any
> case.
>
> http://open-projects.linuxcare.com/BBC/
>
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Clement wrote:
>
> > Yes, this is workable. But ... is not that perfect, is it? Floppies
> > are always something that I can't really trust.
> >
> > Mike Burger wrote:
> > >
> > > Don't worry about making the replacement drive bootable, to start.
> > >
> > > Create a boot disk...if your system crashes, move the mirrored drive into
> > > the primary spot, boot from the floppy, and run lilo once the system is
> > > up.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Clement wrote:
> > >
> > > > Can you suggest an easy way to do it? Now after copying all files to a
> > > > new harddisk, I cannot make the new drive bootable! Lilo insists on
> > > > writing to the real boot device. The chroot '-r' switch cannot change
> > > > this behaviour.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Clement
>
>
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