On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:40, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
> On Monday 09 June 2003 6:09 pm, Jack Coates wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 15:01, Jonathan Dlouhy wrote:
> > > I just copied my L-M 9.0 drive to another hard drive of the same size
> > > using "dd". Everything copied over, but the new drive won't boot past the
> > > initial LILO screen.
> > >
> > > TIA,
> >
> > man lilo.
> >
> > something like
> >
> > /sbin/lilo -M /dev/mynewdrive
> > /sbin/lilo -b /dev/mynewdrive
> >
> > oughta do ya.
> 
> Jack, thanks for the help. If I want to go back to my original drive is there 
> anything I need to do? 

nah, as long as you put it back where it was.

BIOS comes up and starts searching for a boot record. If it doesn't find
on in the MBR of the first hard drive, it will probably give up.
-- 
Jack Coates
Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture...
http://www.monkeynoodle.org/resume.html


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