> > I've recently discovered problems with the drive that had the /boot and > > /home partitions of my Debian box, so I decided to go out and get a new > > HD.... > > in transferring the files, I simply copied /boot/* and /home/* to the new > > drive, and ran lilo on it. It gave me the message that lilo was installed, > > Is that all you did? What drive partition did you put /boot on? > > The info you supplied is insufficent for me to help you with. > My crystal ball is cracked, sorry.
hehe, sorry, I post under the assumption that ppl's balls are in working order ;-D. /boot is hda1...there are three partitions on the drive, none of them extended. this is what I do @ the console: ** silver168:~# lilo -v LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Reading boot sector from /dev/hda Merging with /boot/boot.b Boot image: /boot/linux Added Linux * /boot/boot.0300 exists - no backup copy made. Writing boot sector. ** I'm a little bit confused as to the difference between this command, and 'lilo -v -b /dev/hda1', which gives me the following: ** silver168:~# lilo -v -b /dev/hda1 LILO version 21, Copyright 1992-1998 Werner Almesberger Ignoring entry 'boot' Reading boot sector from /dev/hda1 Merging with /boot/boot.b Boot image: /boot/linux Added Linux * /boot/boot.0301 exists - no backup copy made. Writing boot sector. ** again, when I reboot, and take out the floppy (the way I've been booting for a long time now seeing as my other HD gave me this same problem), I get a "LIL-", which the docs say is a problem with the map file. any help would be appreciated :) -lev
