Booting Debian (or any Linux) from the 2nd drive with Lilo is not a problem. I'm booting from the 3rd drive. It should be just a matter of getting /etc/lilo.conf set up right, and then reinstalling Lilo by running the 'lilo' command as root.
Here's a basic template for /etc/lilo.conf for what you want to do: boot=/dev/hda (install Lilo to MBR of master drive) install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map prompt (display Lilo prompt on boot) timeout=100 (boot default after 10 seconds if no keybd input) default=debian (set default OS ) image=/path/to/your/kernel label=debian root=/dev/hdb? (your root partition such as /dev/hdb1) read-only (mount root read only until fsck runs - standard) other=/dev/hda? (location of your other OS such as /dev/hda1) label=legacy See 'man lilo' and /usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt for more details on Lilo. Tom Willy Lee wrote: > > Hello all, > > I'm new to Debian, used to use RedHat. I installed Debian potato (CD > from LSL) along with a new hard drive (installed as 2nd (slave) IDE) > recently, and I made the mistake of placing all of Debian, including > the root partition, on the 2nd drive. Now, unfortunately, LILO won't > boot to the slave drive. I have to boot from the boot floppy I > thankfully didn't skip making during the install. > > I would strongly prefer to be able to boot from the hard drive, using > LILO to manage booting Debian and a legacy OS. I would prefer to not > reinstall from the CDs, since I would rather not have to configure > pnp, X, etc. again. > > The only other idea I have is to make an ext2 partition on hda, make > it bootable, copy all the files that would be in a root partition > over, then make lilo boot from there. I already have ext2 partitions > on hda, left over from a RedHat install. My Debian install on hdb > consists of /, /usr, and /home partitions. > > How workable does this sound? Has anyone else done something like > this? Am I completely insane or missing something obvious? > > Yours in Debian, > > =wl > -- > Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer > "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of > SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!" >