Jason DeStefano wrote:
> 
> so for the record, if i make a root partiton on a spare drive and
> copy all the files over to mirror a normal drive, then set boot=/dev/hda
> (or whatever), run "lilo", swap the drives, and reboot my machine
> it will automatically boot on the new drive?
> 
> In other words, setting "boot=/dev/sda" and running "lilo" is the
> equvilent of that question during install that askes where you
> would like to install the boot loader (which usually i pick /dev/sda)?
> 
> Jason

I am *guessing* that that will work, although I didn't quite do it that
way (for other reasons).  If this doesn't work I will tell you what I
did - I'm not being cagey, I just don't want to type it up when I suspect
there is no reason to.

Kent



> 
> At 07:56 AM 11/21/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >Jason DeStefano wrote:
> >>
> >> If I'm understanding you right I think it sounds like the boot
> >> loader didnt get transferred to the raid partition. The boot loader
> >> is *usually* installed on the MBR of the boot drive (/dev/hda if its
> >> IDE). Without it, linux wont load. I dont think running lilo after
> >> changing the boot drive will install the boot loader to the MBR
> >> of the other drive. So when you pull your BusTek drive out you
> >> lose your boot loader on that drive's MBR and therefore it cant
> >> boot cause it doesnt exist on the new drive.
> >
> >Thanks for the reply.  I had already written the MBR on the RAID,
> >and the RAID drive boots with no other *drives* in the system.  What
> >the RAID drive won't do is boot without the BusTek card in the system.
> >Note that the BusTek card doesn't have any drives attached to it, it
> >is just in there for no reason (other than the fact that it magically
> >makes the RAID array boot...).
> >
> >Oh, to get lilo to write to any drive, change the directive
> >
> >boot=/dev/sda
> >
> >to whatever drive you want the MBR written to.  (boot=/dev/sdb, etc...)
> >
> >>
> >> Unfortunately I dont know how to fix this (assuming this is your
> >> problem). I just know that I've had problems trying to boot off
> >> a drive that wasnt the orginal boot drive I installed to. My solution
> >> was to never create a situation where I had that problem. :)
> >>
> >> Beyond that, I'm clueless. :)
> >
> >Hey, that's the way it oughta be...
> >Kent
> >
> >
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