Quoting Willy Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 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.
Only a few files have to be accessible to lilo, and I think they're all in /boot (as long as you install your kernel there too). There's no reason why /boot can't be a symlink to anywhere accessible on hda (<= 1023 cylinders), even if it's not an ext2 partition (which you happen to have). What *is* important is that you rerun lilo if you move any of these critical files (e.g. if they were in a DOS partition which you defragged). Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.
