tlug: LILO Vs. 1024??

[Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com>]

Getting by with a little help from my friends (thanks to all for the input
on this), my new disk is installed, everything is copied over and seems to
be working as expected, and I can boot - but only from a sysboot floppy.

Without the floppy, it just sits there,stuck.  Never gets to LILO.

After copying everything from the old to the new disk with cp -a, I did
chroot /mnt/temp lilo  and it responded with "linux added."  Seemed to be
what I wanted.  ??  But after I switched the cables so that the new drive
was the master on IDE header 0 and the old one was the master on IDE
header 1 (the CD-ROM drive is slaved off it on header 1).

LBA mode is enabled and fdisk now reports the 6.4 GB disk as being 787
cyclinders times the unlikely head count of 0 (the 1.2 GB disk is also in
LBA mode and counts 621 cyls X 64 heads).

Everything works all right when the sysboot floppy is used, and both Linux
and X come up *much* faster than they did before with my three year old
1.2 GB drive.  The difference is so great I feel like I have a new CPU,
but it's still my same old P90, chugging along.

My gut feeling is that for whatever reason, LILO didn't install in the MBR
on the new disk.  What do I need to do from there to get it straightened
out?

Thanks,

Jonathan

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