From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:49:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:49:00 -0500 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:19718 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:48:58 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 19:57:41 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Manish Lachwani Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Using lilo to boot off any drive ... Message-ID: <20030112195741.B6866@almesberger.net> References: <20030110210035.76482.qmail@web20502.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030110210035.76482.qmail@web20502.mail.yahoo.com>; from m_lachwani@yahoo.com on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:00:35PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Manish Lachwani wrote: > When the control is transferred to lilo on sda (sdb > actually), is there a way for me to boot off sdd now > (which was previously sde)? I mean, is there any way > that lilo can load the appropriate kernel image? You could have two independent installations of LILO, one on sda, and one on sdb, where the latter accesses no files from sda and defines the disk numbers (for the BIOS) the way they look when sda is removed. Then, you probably want to rename /sbin/lilo to /sbin/lilo.bin or such, and write a script /sbin/lilo that generates the modified lilo.conf files, and updates both instances of LILO. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/