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re: LILO problems / Hard drive upgrade

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Sean Ellis (sellis@intergate.bc.ca)
Tue, 22 Aug 2000 17:03:55 -0700 (PDT)

Assuming new drive is /dev/hdb
and we want to (ultimately) boot into /dev/hda1 as the root
filesystem. I think you ought to be able to run lilo with the
/etc/lilo.conf having:

boot = /dev/hdb

image = /vmlinuz # location of kernel
root = /dev/hda1

.. to write a new boot sector to /dev/hdb.
Set the partition active, put the drive in place,
make sure the kernel is in the right place. After booting edit the
line boot = /dev/hdb to boot = /dev/hda .

My interpretation of the docs, at any rate. How does this sound?

Alternatively you could use a boot disk ( a la Kernel HOWTO) to boot
after the drive is installed then edit /etc/lilo.conf and run lilo as
normal.

Sean 

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