[CLUE-Tech] Trying to get a second hard drive up

[Brandon N]

I'm not sure why lilo isn't working, but don't forget to change your
/etc/fstab to reflect your new disk location as well.

Brandon
--- BOF <bof at pcisys.net> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have put in my computer a second hard drive, taken from another
> system.
> 
> In its previous life, it was a primary (first) drive, with KRUD 7.0
> on 
> it. The file /etc/lilo.conf was written for /dev/hda, with root as 
> dev/hda6. (The boot partition was /dev/hda1, with / and its child 
> directories on /dev/hda6).
> 
> Now it is configured as the slave drive on the first IDE controller,
> and 
> the system sees it during boot up as the second drive.
> 
> In the computer where the drive now lives, I have FreeBSD on the
> first 
> drive. When the system boots, I can use the FreeBSD boot loader to
> tell 
> it to run the OS (KRUD 7.0) on the second drive.  If I select the
> second 
> drive to boot, LILO begins to load, and then fails with LI-.
> 
> I was able to use the KRUD disk #1 and boot into the "linux rescue" 
> mode, and then mount to the / partition on the second drive as
> /dev/hdb6.
> 
> I modified /etc/lilo.conf to use
> 
>     boot=/dev/hdb
> 
> and
> 
>     image=/vmlinuz
>         label=redhat
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hdb6
> 
> and was able to write these changes to /etc/lilo.conf.
> 
> But when I tried to run /sbin/lilo -v, I got an error message "cannot
> 
> open /dev/hdb".
> 
> How can I overcome this and write the new configuration to the boot 
> record on the second drive so that LILO will see it and boot?


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