Craig, my solution is at bottom. > It's easier if you boot from a rescue disk, then run lilo...
How do you do this remotely? > > > I have transfered a current linux install across to a new > > > drive using the cp -a command. I need to now chroot the Hopefully, the "cp -a" worked properly. > > > existing install to the new hdd and tell lilo to boot > > > from there. What disk? > > > How do I do this from a remote location ? > > > > If your new drive will be bootable as a secondary drive and you are not > going > > to remove the primary drive then this should be easy. > > > > If you are going to make the new drive /dev/hda afterwards then it'll be > more > > difficult, check the "bios=" option in /etc/lilo.conf... If hda is original and hdb is the new disk, I do: /mnt/root/sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf-hdb-mirror -r /mnt/root -v -b /dev/hdb (Note that chroot(1) is not needed.) --- /etc/lilo.conf Wed Jul 10 13:08:37 2002 +++ /etc/lilo.conf-hdb-mirror Mon Aug 19 20:02:18 2002 @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ boot=/dev/hda +disk=/dev/hdb + bios=0x80 map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt Jeremy C. Reed ...................................................... ISP-FAQ.com -- find answers to your questions http://www.isp-faq.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]