[ale] Quick question about HD and LILO

[Jim Kinney]

Learned a new command! Even easier than what I've done. Thanks.

James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Zhongbin Yu "jerry" wrote:

> $0.02
> after making sym links to fool lilo, the other way is to do the following
> after mount as Jim said at /mnt/hda5
> 
> cd /mnt/hda5 && chroot .
> 
> after this, you can issue lilo to redo the bootloader as you will do with
> an ordiinary boot-up. It worked for me everytime. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Jerry Yu
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> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
> #The drives are labeled as follows:
> #Ist primary=/dev/hda
> #any partitions are hda1, hda2, etc
> #the second drive on the primary is /dev/hdb
> #The first drive on the secondary is hdc
> #and the second on the secondary is hdd.
> #
> #You will need a method to boot with a floppy. Toms rootboot disk 
> #comes to mind. Redhats rescue disk will also work well.
> #
> #Boot with one of these and do the following:
> #
> #mount /dev/hdb? /mnt/hdb?  /* the ? is the partition number*/
> #do this for the / and /etc and /sbin and /boot if they are on seperate
> #partitions. They are probably all just in / . I'll assume they are all in
> #the / partition (/dev/hda5 for example)
> #
> #ln -s /mnt/hda5/boot /boot
> #ln -s /mnt/hda5/etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf
> #ln -s /mnt/hda5/sbin/lilo /sbin/lilo
> #
> #This will make links that lilo will follow when run later.
> #
> #In the file /etc/lilo.conf edit the lines that list your old 
> #/dev/hdc5 to be /dev/hdb5 
> #
> #/* EXAMPLE*/
> #
> #boot=/dev/hda
> #map=/boot/map
> #install=/boot/boot.b
> #prompt
> #timeout=50
> #image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> #        label=linux
> #        root=/dev/hdc1
> #        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img
> #        read-only
> #
> #/* BECOMES*/
> #
> #boot=/dev/hda
> #map=/boot/map
> #install=/boot/boot.b
> #prompt
> #timeout=50
> #image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> #        label=linux
> #        root=/dev/hdb1
> #        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-15.img
> #        read-only
> #
> #If you use the redhat rescue disk, it has pico for an editor (easy) the
> #other uses vi (not so easy)
> #
> #now run:  /sbin/lilo
> #
> #You should see that the lilo command adds a linux * line (in this case,
> #you may have other OS's installed). 
> #
> #IMPORTANT!!!  cd /
> #
> #umount /dev/hdb5
> #
> #If you don't umount the drive, it may not get written to properly. now 3
> #finger salute, pop out the boot floppy and you should get you old LILO
> #prompt. If you have more than 1 OS in LILO, the tab key will give you a
> #list of keywords to boot with.
> #
> #
> #James Kinney M.S.Physics		jkinney at teller.physics.emory.edu
> #Educational Technology Specialist	404-727-4734
> #Department of Physics Emory University	http://teller.physics.emory.edu
> #
> #On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Chris Woodruff wrote:
> #
> #> I moved my second hard drive from the secondary IDE controller and made it
> #> the second device on the primary IDE controller.  Linux is located on the
> #> moved hard drive.  I try to boot up Linux and get a kernel boot error.  I
> #> assumed that would happen.  How can I fix this?  I just loaded linux a few
> #> days ago so if I had to redo the install it wouldn't be a big deal.
> #> 
> #> On another note I went and bought a Diamond Viper V770 and then NVIDIA
> #> released the open source drivers for all their chipsets.  I would advise
> #> anyone who is looking for a new card and wants something special to get your
> #> hands on this baby.  Besides the nice people at NVIDIA for releasing the
> #> drivers, this is a great card.  The only drawback is that you cannot go over
> #> 16 bit color if you want hardware acceleration.   But I can live with it.
> #> Just wanted to pass that along.
> #> 
> #> Chris Woodruff
> #> cwoodruff at worldwindtech.com
> #> Worldwind Technologies, Inc.
> #> www.worldwindtech.com
> #> 
> #
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