On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 07:04:08PM +0800, Corey Popelier wrote: > This won't be a good answer, but I had a friends machine with an IDE drive > on /dev/hda, and a SCSI drive on /dev/sda, and wanted to boot off the > SCSI. I also got that LILO warning, and got around it by unplugging the > IDE drive, booting, running lilo, then plugging it back in again and > booting again. Everything worked fine. > > I'm positive theres a better answer, but if you can utilise this temporary > measure it might work. > Yep, that is exactly what I am trying to do. But I don't want to open the box and remove the first hard disk - it will void my warranty as the computer guy who installs my hardware has put stickers on the case to prevent this.
Can I boot hd1 and then chroot to the hd2 root partition or something like this. Sorry I am a newbie. Thanks. Mark.