lilo, moving boot disk

Sean picasso@madflower.com
Sat, 6 Oct 2001 14:47:22 -0400 (EDT)


Try it =)

I think lilo locks onto hardware addresses so I don't think it will work
unless you flip flop the hda and hdb drives.

You might try looking at a  different loader like grub. I don't know if
that will work either but it would be worth looking at.
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/

I know on the Macs you can do it but that is a function of Open Firmware
and actually you can change that at boot now (with newer hardware). And
Macs like Sun, etc have to use alternate boot loaders.





On Sat, 6 Oct 2001 rockwell@pa.msu.edu wrote:

> This is one of those questions that is sometimes hard to find the answer
> to - usually documentation cleary says what a product _can_ do, but not
> what it _can't_.
>
> Anyways, it true that there is no way to use lilo to setup booting on a
> harddisk that you are going to move to different location?  e.g. if I'm
> installing a system on a new disk attached at /dev/hdb, but I want to be
> able to boot this disk as /dev/hda (after moving disk to a new
> machine...).  My understanding is that, I have to install the disk as
> /dev/hda and then boot a recovery system from floppy or CDROM and run lilo.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
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