THe new drive isn't bootable (yet) in the new PC, hence the problem i'm
having. So the boot= line must reference where the drive is found in
the old PC, so that I can (successfully) write LILO to that location on
the drive.
--- Auyeung at Technet Systems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Shouldn't all reference to hdd be renamed to hda since you
> now have only one harddisk in your new pc?
>
> Auyeung
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Net Llama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:54 AM
> Subject: I'm in LILO hell
>
>
> > I'm in the process of building a new PC to replace my
> aging PII-400 box.
> > The trick is that I want to copy over the data from the
> old to the new.
> > I've got a nice 30GB IDE drive in the new box, and i've
> successfully
> > copied all the data with the following partition table:
> >
> > Disk /dev/hdd: 240 heads, 63 sectors, 3877 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/hdd1 1 677 5118088+ b Win95
> FAT32 Win98
> > /dev/hdd2 678 680 22680 83 Linux
> /boot
> > /dev/hdd3 * 681 1521 6357960 83 Linux
> /
> > /dev/hdd4 1522 3877 17811360 5 Extended
> > /dev/hdd5 1522 1566 340168+ 82 Linux
> swap
> > /dev/hdd6 1567 2599 7809448+ 83 Linux
> /usr
> > /dev/hdd7 2600 3877 9661648+ 83 Linux
> /opt
> >
> > Note, that everything will be /dev/hda in the new box,
> this is just how
> > its connected to the old box while i'm copying the data.
> The data has
> > copied over without any problems (i've verified by
> mounting each
> > partition). The problem at hand is the damn bootloader,
> LILO.
> >
> > I'm trying to write LILO to the third partition (hdd3), as
> i use a
> > different bootloader in the MBR. Here's what lilo.conf
> looks like:
> > ==============
> > boot=/dev/hdd3
> > read-only
> > prompt
> > timeout=20
> > vga=normal
> > linear
> > default=linux-2.4.5
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.19
> > root=/dev/hda3
> > label=linux
> > append="hdb=ide-scsi"
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5
> > root=/dev/hda3
> > label=linux-2.4.5
> > append="hdb=ide-scsi"
> >
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7
> > root=/dev/hda3
> > label=linux-2.4.7
> > append="hdb=ide-scsi"
> >
> > ==============
> > Here's where it all goes to hell:
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