Drive designations are contreolled by your BIOS.  You can't change these
via software.

On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, steve rader wrote:

>
> Does anyone know how (if possible) to tell lilo to write a MBR
> to, say /dev/sdb (the "second disk" eg bios=0x81) such that it
> will boot as /dev/sda??  I think I have tried all reasonable
> combinations of chroot and lilo.conf disk= and bios= tricks
> with no success.
>
> Failing that, does anyone have a recommendation of floppy
> boot linux distro to use for automating writing the MBR via
> a boot-in-memory-then-write-lilo tact?
>
> steve
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