On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Peter Rundle wrote:
> Scsi based system with dual hot swappable drives. I'm trying to make the second
> drive bootable
>
> dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb bs=512 count=1
>
> I then shutdown and swap the drives. But when I reboot I just get
>
> LI
>
> on the screen with the cursor stopped after the "I". What am I doing wrong?
You need to copy the remainder of the filesystem as well - identically.
The LI then lockup means that LILO can't find the image it's being pointed
to, and ergo can't proceed with loading.
You need to at least maske sure your /boot directory is copied to the new
disk as well.
DaZZa
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