conor daly conordalyoceanfreenet tue jul 30 2002 034740pm 0100 rumoured hereabouts niall broin thought im installing warm standby disks number boxes disks size sometimes bigger main disk idea every night ill rsync partitions main disk standby disk case disaster first port call tapes standby disk consider running linux md raid disks raid gives protection slips finger event finger slips mount relevant partition retrieve banjaxed file case disk crash plan well put standby disk place main disk workstation back asap deal replacing disk without pressure broken box back however im stumped install lilo backup disk lets say master disk devhda backup disk devhdb liloconf currently looks like boot devhda changerules reset readonly menuscheme wgkwwgwg lba32 prompt timeout 80 message bootmessage image bootvmlinuz label linux root devhda3 vga 791 initrd bootinitrd couple boot stanzas theyre germane see devhda3 boot devhda1 instance booted cd wanted reinstall lilo disk id something like mount devhda3 mnt mount devhda1 mntboot lilo r mnt ok im installing lilo devhda want boot devhda itll plug right numbers however case standby disk ill something like mount devhdb3 mnt mount devhdb1 mntboot lilo r mnt im obviously going something different want install onto devhdb way disk boot becomes devhda disaster like one morning shutting stable door todo list bloody horse decided bunk early machine already spare disk hadnt yet used thought perhaps lilo b devhdb r mnt think b analogous boot keyword liloconf work automagically ie boot devhda tells lilo numbers poke figures disk r hard disk upgrade mini howto 8 prepare lilo boot new disk thanks rick masters helping assuming lilo installed hard disks master boot record mbr seems common configuration want install lilo whats presently second hard disk become first hard disk edit file newdisketcliloconf follows diskdevhdb bios0x80 tell lilo treat second disk first disk bios id 0x80 bootdevhdb install lilo second hard disk mapnewdiskbootmap location map file installnewdiskbootbootb file copy hard disks boot sector prompt lilo show lilo boot prompt timeout50 boot default system 5 seconds value tenths seconds imagenewdiskbootvmlinuz location linux kernel actual name may include version number example vmlinuz2035 labellinux label linux system rootdevhda1 location root partition new hard disk modify appropriate system note must use name future location old disk removed readonly mount partition readonly first run fsck conor ps um menuscheme wgkwwgwg conor daly domestic sysadmin faenorcodie 604pm 69 days 322 0 users load average 000 000 000 hobbitoncodie 550pm 12 days 27 min 1 user load average 000 000 000 irish linux users group iluglinuxie httpwwwlinuxiemailmanlistinfoilug unsubscription information list maintainer listmasterlinuxie wed 31 jul 2002 175701 0100 ilug installing lilo another disk