> It's entirely possible... I figured it out... I have an expect
 > script to write the partition table and a bash script to do
 > the rest... the write-MBR-on-/dev/?db magic is...
 > 
 >  mount /dev/hdb1 /slave
 >  vi /slave/etc/lilo.conf # set...
 >    disk=/dev/hdb
 >    [...]
 >    root=/dev/hda1
 >  lilo -r /slave
 >  vi /slave/etc/lilo.conf # set...
 >    disk=/dev/hda
 >  umount /slave

My apologies... I should have cut-n-pasted... the above should
read "boot=" not "disk="...

 mount /dev/hdb1 /slave
 vi /slave/etc/lilo.conf # set...
   boot=/dev/hdb
   [...]
   root=/dev/hda1
 lilo -r /slave
 vi /slave/etc/lilo.conf # set...
   boot=/dev/hda
 umount /slave

..many thanks to Net Llama...

steve 
- - - 
systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

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