Messages in this thread | | | From | Randy Dunlap <> | Date | Sun, 12 Jan 2003 17:17:45 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: Using lilo to boot off any drive ... |
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> 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.
This is probably too simplistic to be helpful..., but what I do is put a modified/stripped-down bootsect.S (512 bytes) on a floppy. I can (theoretically) tell that code which hard drive to boot from (like 0x80 or 0x81). I haven't tried it with more than 2 drives (don't have more than 2 drives).
And I install LILO on each target boot drive. LILO complains a little bit, but it still works. ~Randy
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