[KLUG Members] LIILO on a secondary HD

[Richard Zimmerman]

Today is your lucky day! After a long absence I'm finally back.... Goose 
is my handle and life's knocks was my game :)

Anyhow, to your solve. After RH dumped versions 8-9 I decided to switch 
to Debian. Yup, I've been there done that with your problem...

The easiest fix to the problem I've found so far is...

Grab a Tom's Boot/Root floppy diskette. (http://www.toms.net/rb/) and 
boot into that.

mount your "LI" locked HD root partition to /mnt

run 'chroot /mnt'

At this point you on the hard drive... '/sbin/lilo' and you should be 
fixed....

reboot the machine and you should be back in business..

LMK,

   Goose



Jamie McCarthy wrote:

>I did a debian upgrade on a machine that hadn't been upgraded in a
>while.  It told me to run lilo but like an idiot I forgot;  then I
>powered the machine down to protect from lightning and now it won't
>come back up.  It gets as far as the "LI".
>
>I assume I just have to run lilo on the drive and all will be well.
>
>This machine is very old and won't boot from CD-ROM, so I took out
>its boot HD and plugged it into another machine as /dev/hdc.
>
>I'm trying to figure out how to get lilo to write that drive's
>/etc/lilo.conf info onto that drive (not this machine's boot drive!).
>I've mounted it at /mnt/hdc and am mulling over the output from:
>
>    # lilo -t -v -b /dev/hdc -C /mnt/hdc/etc/lilo.conf
>
>I can't tell if that's going to do what I want!  Anyone know the
>magic formula?
>  
>