On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Kevin J Menard wrote: > This is a shot in the dark, but could you use the bios option to install > lilo onto that drive. Then use a boot disk to boot off of it. Once > it's up, you could then change the bios option back to 0x80, and rerun > lilo, and should be all set.
This is a follow-up on my problem. Anyways, using the bios option did work -- and I didn't need a boot floppy or have to rerun lilo again! I was able to copy hda to hdb (fdisk, newfs, rsync, lilo) and then use the disk originally at hdb as hda without any changes. The "boot=" was /dev/hda, but I used "-b /dev/hdb" to override that. And then in the lilo config I did: disk=/dev/hdb bios=0x80 And it wrote the boot loader to hdb so it thought that it was really hda. Jeremy C. Reed http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/ -- BSD news and resources http://www.isp-faq.com/ -- find answers to your questions
