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LILO problems / Hard drive upgrade

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Alex Harford (alexh@dowco.com)
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:34:48 -0700

Hello, I am in the process of upgrading a hard drive, and I've got a
question about LILO. What I want to do is duplicate the old drive onto
the new drive, install lilo on the new drive, take out the old drive,
and magically boot with the new drive.

I've read some docs on installing lilo but they don't explain what I
want to do. If I put boot=/dev/hdb in the lilo.conf file on the new
drive, then run lilo -r /new-drive , will I be able to turn the machine
off, put the new drive in /dev/hda and boot up properly? I will edit
the lilo.conf file after booting sucessfully of course.

Any other suggestions? 

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