LILO errors

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foexxchen · Post by **foexxchen** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 1:14 pm

Hi.
I'm trying to move my gentoo installation to a new harddisk.
The old layout is
hda1 winxp
hda2 extended partition
hda5 gentoo boot partition
hda6 swap
hda7 root partition

So I made the same layout on the new disk (theres now plenty of
unused space after hda7).
Afterwards I copied everthing from from the old to the new harddisk
removed the old harddisk, booted a linux rescue disk (both suse8 and knoppix 3.something), mounted both the root and the boot partition and ran
lilo -C /mnt/newhd/etc/lilo.conf
this gives me some error about the first boot stage (forgot the exact words) - btw I changed that lilo.conf relatively to /mnt/newhd.
So I tried chroot /mnt/newhd lilo
Now lilo cannot stat /dev/hda (well, obviously).

Any ideas what I can do to get lilo onto that new disk?

BTW. I tried to get the windows bootloader onto the new disk and that worked.... shame

st589 · Post by **st589** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 3:54 pm

Assuming lilo is configured correctly, the only thing I can think of right now is that you forgot to edit your /etc/fstab to reflect the changes.

foexxchen · Post by **foexxchen** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:02 pm

Hmm. Since I created the same layout on the new disk as on the old one
fstab will still be correct. But AFAIK lilo doesn't use fstab (you specify device names in lilo.conf => no need for fstab?).

st589 · Post by **st589** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:32 pm

Oh I see. I thought you meant you put Gentoo on another disk and now had two.

foexxchen · Post by **foexxchen** » Sun Nov 09, 2003 4:50 pm

Ahh, now it works.
The problem where the rescue cds. The lilo versions on them
didn't work with the files in my boot dir (why???).
I just downloaded the 1.4 livecd and the its lilo version worked
without any problems:

lilo -c /mnt/newhd/etc/lilo.conf -s /mnt/newhd/boot