lilo, moving boot disk

[Ben Pfaff]

rockwell@pa.msu.edu writes:

> 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.

I did this once.  It just meant I had to hack the source code a
little.  You might want to try that yourself if you have any
programming skills.
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