Perhaps unplug your primary drive, plug your mirror in its place, and
try booting. Depending on how you made your mirror, you might not even
need the floppy. But in either case, you can now make your mirror
bootable, and not worry about the floppy. Once it is bootable, put it
back as the secondary disk and reconnect the primary drive, and you are
all set.

And if you don't trust floppies, download this very handy bootable CD
image and burn a bootable CDROM. It will let you mount the HD and run
lilo to make it bootable, and is a valuable tool to have around in any
case.

http://open-projects.linuxcare.com/BBC/

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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