SUMMARY: Upgrading my hard drive

[Ryan D Williams <breath@xxxxxxx>]

Well, I figured this one out on my own.  This may be old hat to many of you, but
here's a summary of what finally made Lilo work on the hard disk transition.

Remember that I'm trying to transfer everything to the current hdc, and then
boot off of it when it's in the hda slot.  I copied all my files to hdc when it
was mounted in /mnt.

Here's what my /mnt/etc/lilo.conf looked like:
------------------
lba32
boot=/dev/hdc
disk= /dev/hdc
   bios=0x80
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
delay=50
vga=normal
root=/dev/hda3

default=2427

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.27
         label=2427
         read-only
-----------------

And in the end I executed lilo with this command:
/mnt/sbin/lilo -b /dev/hdc -r /mnt/

The important factor in this working correctly seems to have been the bios=0x80
parameter.

I found the lilo mini-howto to be extremely helpful, outlining pretty much
exactly what I had to do. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO-4.html

Maybe GRUB is easier to use.

-RYaN

Quoting Ryan Williams <breath@xxxxxxx>:

> I'm trying to move my server from two old hard drives onto a single new 
> one, and I've not been able to accomplish it.  I'm assuming that there's 
> something obvious that I've missed.  I notice that LILO gives me some 
> heat as it's being run, but I'm at a loss for how to cure it.
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