Re: tlug: LILO Vs. 1024??

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Jonathan Byrne wrote:

> 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?

boot from the sysboot disk, log in as root, and run lilo again.

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               <sstone@example.com>
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