Re: LILO booting off second IDE disk

On Sun, 07 May 2006 12:29:08 +1000, Brad <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

My personal preference is to leave the MBR alone and instead get LILO
to install its bootstrap in the active partition of the disk off which
I wish it to boot.

In this case, I want to:

- set the partition hdb1 on the second disk to 'active'
- set up a /boot filesytem (kernel, etc) on hdb1
- install LILO onto hdb1
- direct my bios to boot off the second disk (hdb)
- and boot!

Leaving the MBR on hdb alone and intact.

Move the drive from /dev/hdb to /dev/hdc (master on second IDE),
see how you go.

Grant.
--
Memory fault -- brain fried
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