[KLUG Members] LILO on a secondary HD

[Bruce Smith]

> > 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.

This sounds like a good time to plug "grub".  With grub, you don't have
to run any program to rewrite the boot sector after changing kernels.
Plus you can make parameter changes on the fly at the boot prompt, or
even boot kernels or partitions that aren't in the grub config file.
And with grub on a floppy, you can boot any kernel on any hard drive in
case your boot sector gets lost somehow.  I'll never go back to lilo!!!

If your chroot trick doesn't work, you can always make a grub floppy,
boot the floppy and type grub commands to boot your hard drive.

 - BS