On Monday 09 June 2003 7:00 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:40, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > On Monday 09 June 2003 6:09 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > > > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:01, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: > > > > I just copied my L-M 9.0 drive to another hard drive of the same size > > > > using "dd". Everything copied over, but the new drive won't boot past > > > > the initial LILO screen. > > > > > > > > TIA, > > > > > > man lilo. > > > > > > something like > > > > > > /sbin/lilo -M /dev/mynewdrive > > > /sbin/lilo -b /dev/mynewdrive > > > > > > oughta do ya. > > > > Jack, thanks for the help. If I want to go back to my original drive is > > there anything I need to do? > > nah, as long as you put it back where it was. > > BIOS comes up and starts searching for a boot record. If it doesn't find > on in the MBR of the first hard drive, it will probably give up.
Jack, here are the results of using the two lilo options. Any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lilo -M /dev/hdb1 Fatal: /dev/hdb1 is not a master device with a primary parition table [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lilo -b /dev/hdb1 Ignoring entry 'boot' Added linux * Added linux-nonfb Added failsafe [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# lilo -M /dev/hdb1 Fatal: /dev/hdb1 is not a master device with a primary parition table [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# Thanks, -- Jonathan Dlouhy Monday, June 09, 2003 07:15 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------- If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of aviation. -- Tom Stoppard ---------------------------------------------------------------- Registered Linux user #264482 Powered by Mandrake 9.0
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