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RE: [ILUG] Installing lilo on another disk.
From ilug-admin@linux.ie  Wed Jul 31 10:58:41 2002

> I thought perhaps I should just do   lilo -b /dev/hdb -r /mnt  but I think
> that -b is analogous to the boot keyword in lilo.conf. Or will this just
> work automagically ?  i.e. boot = /dev/hda tells lilo what numbers to poke
> where, and it figures out where the disk is from the -r ?
That won't work like you want.  You'll end up with a boot loader
on the backup disk that contains the 'physical' location of
the /boot/map file on the main disk.  That won't necessarily
be the same as the backup disk.
I can't think of a right way to do his with LILO.  I've got
a similar seup on my home machine (rsync to a backup disk
every night), but I'll be pulling out the RH install CDs to
get LILO sorted if I have to do a disk swap.
GRUB should be able to handle this no problem, since it
doesn't record sector numbers like LILO does.  Not much help
for you though...
Later,
Kenn
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