On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 19:08, Paul Parkyn wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have changed the order of the two hard drives in my PC what was formerly
> hda is now hdb and vice versa. The original hda is a Linux RH6.0
> installation and hdb Windows. Lilo is installed on the Linux drive, I can
> boot from a floppy and use the rescue option to get up and running but
> don't know how to access hdb and which files I would have to modify, so
> that I can install lilo on the new hda(windows drive). I initially tried
> just changing lilo.conf on the floppy to point to hdb but it failed with a
> kernel Panic.

"chroot /hdb????? "

then go into /etc and edit lilo.conf to accept the changes.

then run "lilo" and it will install itself onto the MBR.

That's always worked for me.

Wesley Parish

>
> cheers Paul

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