[Glastonbury] Boot on the other Drive

Damon Chaplin damon at karuna.uklinux.net
Fri Oct 31 11:20:48 GMT 2003


On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 04:41, tim hall wrote:
> Hum,
> 
> Might have guessed it wasn't going to be /that/ easy.
> 
> Right, well I did all that you suggested:
> 
> I edited lilo.conf on both disks as per instructions - read manpages while I 
> was at it (naturally)
> I go to boot from hdb - I've labelled it DeMuDi for arguments sake - lilo on 
> hda gives me a boot menu with 3 options - Linux, LinuxOLD and DeMuDi - I see 
> 'MBR' printed up, I can get the 1FA type options then nada ...
> 
> How do I get useful error messages out of this?
> 
> I have mounted hdb on /mnt when I boot from hda (Label: Linux) - It's all 
> there quite happily, but so far I can't boot into it.
> I can still boot the original system on hda tho' - so It's not a disaster.
> 
> I will go reread the relevant HOWTOs & whatever else I can find any other 
> suggestions of useful reading material would be gratefully appreciated.

You only need to set up lilo once, I think. I'd just do it on the hda
system.

Send us your /etc/lilo.conf. Maybe someone can spot the problem.

Damon





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