liloing hdc as hda
Richard E. Hawkins writes: | | I managed to scrounge up an additional identiacl hard disk to replace | my dying disk. dd seems to have successfully duplicated the drive; | they look the same. To write to the drive, I have it as the primary on | the secondary controller. | | | I switched cables, and it wouldn't boot, so I presume the boot sector | doesn't get copied by | dd? Yes, the boot sector should get copied. dd Knows nothing of disk geometries or layout usage. | I copied /etc/lilo.config to /ec/lilo.config.c, and changed only | the boot line to | |boot=/dev/hdc | | while leaving the old information about hda in the entries. Upon | making it the primary, I get | |LIL- Is the disk *exactly* identical? If not, are both discs in LBA mode, now, and when copied? | I could solve this easily by booting from a floppy, but that doesn't | seem to be an option, as something went horribly wrong when I set the | password in the bios. What went wrong? This sounds highly sus. Mx.
liloing hdc as hda
I managed to scrounge up an additional identiacl hard disk to replace my dying disk. dd seems to have successfully duplicated the drive; they look the same. To write to the drive, I have it as the primary on the secondary controller. I switched cables, and it wouldn't boot, so I presume the boot sector doesn't get copied by dd? I copied /etc/lilo.config to /ec/lilo.config.c, and changed only the boot line to boot=/dev/hdc while leaving the old information about hda in the entries. Upon making it the primary, I get LIL- I could solve this easily by booting from a floppy, but that doesn't seem to be an option, as something went horribly wrong when I set the password in the bios. So how do I boot from hda and setup hdc to be hada? rick, now stumped p.s. should syslogd really go to 100% cycle usage when / switches to ro status due to disk errors? I understand it's trying to write, but is this a bug? -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (319) 266-7114http://eyry.econ.iastate.edu/hawk These opinions will not be those of UNI until it pays my retainer.
