[ale] Quick question about HD and LILO

[Zhongbin Yu " <zyu at tc.net>]

$0.02
after making sym links to fool lilo, the other way is to do the following
after mount as Jim said at /mnt/hda5

cd /mnt/hda5 && chroot .

after this, you can issue lilo to redo the bootloader as you will do with
an ordiinary boot-up. It worked for me everytime. 

Thanks.


Jerry Yu
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On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Jim Kinney wrote:

#The drives are labeled as follows:
#Ist primary=/dev/hda
#any partitions are hda1, hda2, etc
#the second drive on the primary is /dev/hdb
#The first drive on the secondary is hdc
#and the second on the secondary is hdd.
#
#You will need a method to boot with a floppy. Toms rootboot disk 
#comes to mind. Redhats rescue disk will also work well.
#
#Boot with one of these and do the following:
#
#mount /dev/hdb? /mnt/hdb?  /* the ? is the partition number*/
#do this for the / and /etc and /sbin and /boot if they are on seperate
#partitions. They are probably all just in / . I'll assume they are all in
#the / partition (/dev/hda5 for example)
#
#ln -s /mnt/hda5/boot /boot
#ln -s /mnt/hda5/etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf
#ln -s /mnt/hda5/sbin/lilo /sbin/lilo
#
#This will make links that lilo will follow when run later.
#
#In the file /etc/lilo.conf edit the lines that list your old 
#/dev/hdc5 to be /dev/hdb5 
#
#/* EXAMPLE*/
#
#boot=/dev/hda
#map=/boot/map
#install=/boot/boot.b
#prompt
#timeout=50
#image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
#        label=linux
#        root=/dev/hdc1
#        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img
#        read-only
#
#/* BECOMES*/
#
#boot=/dev/hda
#map=/boot/map
#install=/boot/boot.b
#prompt
#timeout=50
#image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
#        label=linux
#        root=/dev/hdb1
#        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img
#        read-only
#
#If you use the redhat rescue disk, it has pico for an editor (easy) the
#other uses vi (not so easy)
#
#now run:  /sbin/lilo
#
#You should see that the lilo command adds a linux * line (in this case,
#you may have other OS's installed). 
#
#IMPORTANT!!!  cd /
#
#umount /dev/hdb5
#
#If you don't umount the drive, it may not get written to properly. now 3
#finger salute, pop out the boot floppy and you should get you old LILO
#prompt. If you have more than 1 OS in LILO, the tab key will give you a
#list of keywords to boot with.
#
#
#James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
#Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
#Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu
#
#On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Chris Woodruff wrote:
#
#> I moved my second hard drive from the secondary IDE controller and made it
#> the second device on the primary IDE controller.  Linux is located on the
#> moved hard drive.  I try to boot up Linux and get a kernel boot error.  I
#> assumed that would happen.  How can I fix this?  I just loaded linux a few
#> days ago so if I had to redo the install it wouldn't be a big deal.
#> 
#> On another note I went and bought a Diamond Viper V770 and then NVIDIA
#> released the open source drivers for all their chipsets.  I would advise
#> anyone who is looking for a new card and wants something special to get your
#> hands on this baby.  Besides the nice people at NVIDIA for releasing the
#> drivers, this is a great card.  The only drawback is that you cannot go over
#> 16 bit color if you want hardware acceleration.   But I can live with it.
#> Just wanted to pass that along.
#> 
#> Chris Woodruff
#> cwoodruff at worldwindtech.com
#> Worldwind Technologies, Inc.
#> www.worldwindtech.com
#> 
#