Hello all, I'm new to Debian, used to use RedHat. I installed Debian potato (CD from LSL) along with a new hard drive (installed as 2nd (slave) IDE) recently, and I made the mistake of placing all of Debian, including the root partition, on the 2nd drive. Now, unfortunately, LILO won't boot to the slave drive. I have to boot from the boot floppy I thankfully didn't skip making during the install.
I would strongly prefer to be able to boot from the hard drive, using LILO to manage booting Debian and a legacy OS. I would prefer to not reinstall from the CDs, since I would rather not have to configure pnp, X, etc. again. The only other idea I have is to make an ext2 partition on hda, make it bootable, copy all the files that would be in a root partition over, then make lilo boot from there. I already have ext2 partitions on hda, left over from a RedHat install. My Debian install on hdb consists of /, /usr, and /home partitions. How workable does this sound? Has anyone else done something like this? Am I completely insane or missing something obvious? Yours in Debian, =wl -- Albert ``Willy'' Lee, Emacs user, game programmer "They call me CRAZY - just because I DARE to DREAM of a RACE of SUPERHUMAN MONSTERS!"