On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, James Schofield wrote:
>
> >What I usually do is mount the other /root and /boot partitions
> >(ie /mnt/storm/boot and /mnt/storm/root when I've got mandrake
> >running) and make lilo.conf point to those. Lilo dosn't care about the
> >labels, what it wants is to be able to find the files in question so it
> >can figure out a geometry to get to them when it's trying to boot.
>
> Ok I can do that.. but when you re-boot they wont be in that location
> anymore? or does not lilo care at that point.. its only a matter of where
> they are when you run the lilo.conf file??
>
Yep, the stuff only have to be mounted when you run lilo to generate a new
boot record, and lilo.conf has got to have the current paths
After that, the only thing to do is remember to remount them all whenever
you run lilo again
(Personal note...due to a dodgy Hard drive I eventually got tired of the
whole thing and bought a vmware licence to do my testing with)
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