Most sweet, was Re: booting a cloned disk

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Author: der.hans
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Old-Topics: booting a cloned disk
Subject: Most sweet, was Re: booting a cloned disk
Am 05. Feb, 2001 schwäzte Larry Schmid so:

> There are a couple of parameters to add to the lilo.conf for the clone/target
> disk to be recognized as /dev/hda, and installing it is easier with chroot.
> Here's how I install lilo on LFS disks that I build.
>
> The target disk is /dev/hdb. I mount the root partition on $LFS (/mnt/lfs).
>
> This is how my $LFS/etc/lilo.conf file looks:
>
> boot=/dev/hdb          #This will write to the MBR of the target
> install=/boot/boot.b    #$LFS/boot
> disk=/dev/hdb        #This will cause the system bios
>         bios=0x80        # to recognize the drive as hda


This and chroot did exactly what I needed! Most cool.

Now I've got a 20 line script that automagically clones these boxen for
me!

most danke,

der.hans

PS I realize now that if I hadn't been such a nimrod and had read the
lilo.conf manpage as well as the lilo manpage I could've figure this out
myself :). In any case Larry's example made it much easier to understand.

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