[KLUG Members] LILO on a secondary HD

Jamie McCarthy jamie at mccarthy.vg
Mon Jul 25 08:23:19 EDT 2005


csxt at comcast.net (Richard Zimmerman) writes:

> 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..

Ah, that's an easy enough way to do it.  I'll try that.  (With a
boot CD since this machine's floppy drive is flaky... yes, my home
hardware is a smorgasbord of cheap breakage).

Seems like there should be easy lilo options to operate on a
secondary drive, though.
-- 
  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  jamie at mccarthy.vg



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