LILO guru, anyone???
This is a discussion on LILO guru, anyone??? within the Slackware Linux Support forums, part of the Unix Operating Systems category; --> On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:12:46 +0200, P.T. Breuer wrote: > In alt.os.linux joseph philip <joseph@nntp.will.suffice> wrote: >> No. ...
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02-19-2008, 03:51 PM
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 Re: LILO guru, anyone??? On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:12:46 +0200, P.T. Breuer wrote: > In alt.os.linux joseph philip <joseph@nntp.will.suffice> wrote: >> No. There is no way to tell lilo to pretend that hdc will be used as hda. > > Ys ther eis. You can tell it what disk to use, and what bios code > to use for that disk, separately. Whether that will actually work, I > don't know ... it depends on precisely what the code lilo writes to > the boot sector is, so it's in the domain of "suck it and see". I stand corrected. As always, I learn something new each day.. -----= Posted via Newsfeeds.Com, Uncensored Usenet News =----- http://www.newsfeeds.com - The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! -----== Over 100,000 Newsgroups - 19 Different Servers! =-----      |
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02-19-2008, 04:10 PM
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| Re: LILO guru, anyone??? In article <PiL4d.1759$nj.1628@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, "Lars" <noemail@hotmail.com> wrote: >What I am having a hard time with is installing LILO when the disk >is on /dev/hdc in such a way that it can be moved to /dev/hda >without having to re-run /sbin/lilo. This is just so easy with grub. I did this on my very first solo Linux install. |
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02-19-2008, 04:10 PM
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| Re: LILO guru, anyone??? On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:02:59 +1300, Lawrence DčOliveiro wrote: > In article <PiL4d.1759$nj.1628@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, > "Lars" <noemail@hotmail.com> wrote: > >>What I am having a hard time with is installing LILO when the disk >>is on /dev/hdc in such a way that it can be moved to /dev/hda >>without having to re-run /sbin/lilo. > > This is just so easy with grub. I did this on my very first solo Linux > install. If I'm not wrong you MUST issu /sbin/lilo after every update of the /etc/lilo.conf file |
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02-19-2008, 04:12 PM
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| Re: LILO guru, anyone??? In article <pan.2004.10.05.12.46.21.264812@localhost.it>, Casaxa <casaxa@localhost.it> wrote: >On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:02:59 +1300, Lawrence DčOliveiro wrote: > >> In article <PiL4d.1759$nj.1628@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, >> "Lars" <noemail@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >>>What I am having a hard time with is installing LILO when the disk >>>is on /dev/hdc in such a way that it can be moved to /dev/hda >>>without having to re-run /sbin/lilo. >> >> This is just so easy with grub. I did this on my very first solo Linux >> install. > >If I'm not wrong you MUST issu /sbin/lilo after every update >of the /etc/lilo.conf file Exactly. grub doesn't require this. |
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02-19-2008, 04:12 PM
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| Re: LILO guru, anyone??? On Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:22:51 +1300, Lawrence DčOliveiro wrote: > In article <pan.2004.10.05.12.46.21.264812@localhost.it>, > Casaxa <casaxa@localhost.it> wrote: > >>On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:02:59 +1300, Lawrence DčOliveiro wrote: >> >>> In article <PiL4d.1759$nj.1628@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>, >>> "Lars" <noemail@hotmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>>What I am having a hard time with is installing LILO when the disk >>>>is on /dev/hdc in such a way that it can be moved to /dev/hda >>>>without having to re-run /sbin/lilo. >>> >>> This is just so easy with grub. I did this on my very first solo Linux >>> install. >> >>If I'm not wrong you MUST issu /sbin/lilo after every update >>of the /etc/lilo.conf file > > Exactly. grub doesn't require this. Yes, but lose the menu.lst file and see if you can still boot.  |
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