[Glastonbury] Boot on the other Drive

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:48:36AM +0000, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:20, Damon Chaplin wrote:
> 
> > You only need to set up lilo once, I think. I'd just do it on the hda
> > system.
> 
> oh, I see Andrew suggested chain-loading, in which case you do need to
> set it up on each disk.
> 
> I used to just place all the kernel images on hda and use one lilo.conf
> on hda like this:
> 
> image = /vmlinuz
>   label = Linux
>   root = /dev/hda1
> 
> image = /vmlinuz.demudi
>   label = DeMuDi
>   root = /dev/hdb1
> 
> It's been a while since I used lilo though, so I may be wrong.
> 
> Damon
> 
It's a matter of convenience and personal preference. Both ways of doing
this work equally well.

Thinking about it: if you install lilo on both drives - if at any stage 
you need to take a drive out and put it in another machine as the only 
disk, then you only need edit /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf, rerun lilo 
and you're away.

HTH,

Andy