Obviously, you can't always trust your HD, either. <G>
And, if you're overly concerned, make multiple boot floppies. The changes
that all of them are going to fail at one time are fairly slim.
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Clement wrote:
> Yes, this is workable. But ... is not that perfect, is it? Floppies
> are always something that I can't really trust.
>
> Mike Burger wrote:
> >
> > Don't worry about making the replacement drive bootable, to start.
> >
> > Create a boot disk...if your system crashes, move the mirrored drive into
> > the primary spot, boot from the floppy, and run lilo once the system is
> > up.
> >
> > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Clement wrote:
> >
> > > Can you suggest an easy way to do it? Now after copying all files to a
> > > new harddisk, I cannot make the new drive bootable! Lilo insists on
> > > writing to the real boot device. The chroot '-r' switch cannot change
> > > this behaviour.
> > >
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Clement
> > >
> > >
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