hi all..... i have following problem: i want to make a backup of my existing root filesystem which resides on a 500 MB IDE disk, hda for this to work i chose a second 500 MB IDE disk and copied the whole disk via norton ghost, hdb then i rebooted, mountet the duplicate (hdb) and installed lilo in the MBR of hdb by issuing "lilo -b /dev/hdb" in the etc directory of hdb. i got : "ignoring entry boot=" and : "warning : /dev/hdb is not the first disk" i ignored these warnings because i knew hdb would get the first disk by plugging out the old hda and jumpering hdb to master. so i continued : another reboot, plugged out the old hda, re-jumpered hdb to master (which made it hda) and (tried) to boot linux... the only thing i got was : LI nothing else.....then my machine locked up..... has anyone any advice on this ?......what am i doing wrong ?...i cant imagine.....this HAS to work....i have a 1:1 copy of the root fs, lilo.conf is ok and lilo is in the MBR.....so.....i cant imagine why this doesnt work..... thx for any advice u can give... --quay ------------------------------ -Quaylar- Icq# 30932448 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <! Knowledge is power >
