davidkline
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« on: July 06, 2007, 12:37:44 pm » |
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I have two hard disks, hda and hdb. VL STD 5.1 is installed on hda (and working well) and hdb contains nothing. I would like to run LILO from hda (current running system) and have it put the boot loader, etc ... onto hdb. That's it nothing else. How would I go about doing this?
Please advise, thanks in advance,
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Triarius Fidelis
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« Reply #1 on: July 06, 2007, 04:50:12 pm » |
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I suppose one could set 'boot = /dev/hdb' in /etc/lilo.conf, then run lilo to update. Never tried anything like that before.
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davidkline
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« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2007, 01:13:09 pm » |
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This is something that I have tried, but seems to expect a distribution on the destination drive (in this case hdb). I'm looking for instruction to install only the LILO boot loader (and necessary files) only.
Thanks for your reply,
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uelsk8s
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« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2007, 03:47:28 pm » |
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all you need to do is open /etc/lilo.conf and change 'boot = /dev/hda' to 'boot = /dev/hdb' and then run lilo as root.
I have done this a few times with no issues.
If it doesnt work for some reason then post the output after running lilo
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davidkline
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« Reply #4 on: July 08, 2007, 06:28:04 am » |
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What was the contents of hdb? Was there a distribution of VL on hdb?
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uelsk8s
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« Reply #5 on: July 08, 2007, 07:27:04 am » |
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the contents of hdb do not matter. all you are doing is writing to the mbr.
there was only a fat32 partiton on hdb no linux installs
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davidkline
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« Reply #6 on: July 08, 2007, 04:34:28 pm » |
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Let me clarify and add more detail to what I'm looking for.
I would like the boot loader installed on hdb and get to the 'boot' prompt, so that I can to specify, using boot line parameters, were to get the root fs....
So, would specifying 'boot=/dev/hdb' then running LILO from hda do this? Or will I need more files on hdb?
Thanks in advance,
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davidkline
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« Reply #7 on: July 09, 2007, 03:25:06 pm » |
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Ok ... I did get to this to work the way I wanted it. I did need to copy some of the contents of the /boot directory to hdb. There was a typo in the lilo.conf file that prevented a success execution of lilo. I didn't fully understand the error message. Thanks again for everyones response, they were helpful.
Tschuess!
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uelsk8s
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« Reply #8 on: July 09, 2007, 04:01:20 pm » |
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davidkline,
Glad to hear you got it working.
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