Hi Rod,
you're right here. However - doing what you described is IMHO a little bit too
complicated. An easyer way is to boot from the Installation or rescue CD-Rom,
mount the first partition, and issue a: lilo -r /mnt -C /etc/lilo.conf
and the lilo is back again installed. So - it never really was a problem. You
don't even need an original running kernel for this.
What I'm using also lately for my mini-ITX based systems is a USB-Memory
Stick. I have partitionned it into 2 partitions - and the first one had the
Mandrake installation/rescue CD-Rom Image dd'd to it.
IN the BIOS Setups, I do have the harddisk as first Boot device configured,
USB as second. So - if it does not work from Harddisk - it jumps to the USB
stick - and that works great :)
Cheers
Joerg
On Friday 01 August 2003 11:37, Ron Stodden wrote:
> Joerg Mertin wrote:
[...]
> A word of warning here ...
>
> Any procedure that changes the start or end sector of a bootable
> partition will render the partition unbootable.
>
> So you must firstly have a floppy boot (mkbootdisk) for that partition
> and kernel version. After moving the partition on the same drive do a
> boot from this floppy and rerun lilo or grub to fix it
>
> Any action that causes a bootable partition to be renumbered will render
> the partition unbootable.
>
> The only fix is to add dummy partitions or remove or shift partitions so
> that the original partition number is restored.
>
> Any action that causes a bootable partition to be shifted to another
> drive will render the new partition unbootable.
>
> Copy the partition, don't move it! You must have a floppy boot
> (mkbootdisk) for the new partition and kernel version. This is not
> easy to create - use chroot mkbootdisk from the original working Linux
> partition. Do a boot from this floppy and rerun lilo or grub to fix
> it. Only now may the original partition be deleted.
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