[Wylug-help] Creating a bootable hard drive?

[Jim Jackson]

On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Thomas, Nicholas wrote:

> I have tried to mount the root partition and boot partition of the secondary
> drive and run lilo like this:
> prompt> chroot /mnt/temp /sbin/lilo -v

Why didn't you use the lilo -r option to get lilo to do this itself?

> And it appears to update the MBR of the /dev/hdc disk, but when I try to
> boot it I get "L 01 01 01 01 01".
>
> I have messed with various combinations of boot= and disk= in the lilo.conf
> and cannot get it to work. I usually screw up the
> MBR on my primary linux disk.
>
> I can repair the MBR of my main Linux disk using Toms Rescue Disk because I
> use ext2 file system, but I cannot do the same trick on my secondary disk
> because I have to use the XFS file system. I cannot get Toms Rescue Disk to
> support XFS file system (kernel too big).
>
> Does anyone have any experience at this?
>
> Any ideas appreciated.
>
> I am hoping that all I need to do is have a correct lilo.conf file.
>
> Regards
>
> Nick
>
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