>> > From: Net Llama! >> > Drive designations are contreolled by your BIOS. You can't change these >> > via software.
>> From: steve rader >> Yea--understood. Are you saying it's not possible >> to write a MBR to a non-boot disk that will end up >> being a boot disk??? > From: Net Llama! > Not at all. I'm just saying that you need to do more than just write a > bootloader to the MBR of hdb, in order to make it bootable. Oh, sure... sorry... assume I do... - install a good linux system on /master - fdisk /dev/hdb - mkfs /dev/hdb1 - mkswap /dev/hdb5 - mount /dev/hdb1 /slave - (cd /master; tar -cf - .) | (cd /slave; tar -xpf -) - umount /slave ..now how do I write a MBR to /dev/hdb that will boot when it's /dev/hda??? Currently, I re-cable /dev/hdb as /dev/hda, boot linux into memory from a CD (RedHat install media) and then... - mknod /dev/hda1 b 8 1 - mkdir /slave - mount /dev/hda1 /slave - /slave/sbin/lilo -r /slave - umount /slave but I want to automate those steps (preferably without another boot!) The solution needs to work for IDE and SCSI disks, btw. steve - - - systems & network guy high energy physics university of wisconsin _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
