Can your bios boot the hdd drive ? If not, see:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO-5.html
Net Llama <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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:
> > >
<snip>
> > > 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:
> > > ==============
<snip>
--
Chris Kassopulo
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