Proper Method To Reload Boot Loader (LILO)?!?!


What is the currently "proper" method to reload LILO for a recovered
hard drive?

Over the holidays I had a drive go bad. I installed a new drive,
partitioned and recovered the data from a backup. Now the problem,
how do I make it bootable?

(I don't always do this just for a recovery, the same requirements are
for a drive clone as well.)

Here are the ways I used to do it:

1) Boot a slackware boot-floppy or CD and use the "root=/dev/hdax"
switch. Then after the boot re-execute the `lilo` command to reload
the MBR.

2) Boot a KNOPPIX (or similar live CD), chroot to the desired
partition and reload the MBR with the LILO command.

This time when I tried this I received the error "udev not loaded
....".

I had to resort to installing a minimal Linux on another partition,
booting the minimal linux, add an entry for my recovered partition,
boot my recovered partition THEN re-execute the (recovered) lilo into
the MBR.

Any comments on a more stream-lined solution to this? TIA!
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