[ILUG] Installing lilo on another disk.

[Kenn Humborg]

> I thought perhaps I should just do   lilo -b /dev/hdb -r /mnt  but I think
> that -b is analogous to the boot keyword in lilo.conf. Or will this just
> work automagically ?  i.e. boot = /dev/hda tells lilo what numbers to poke
> where, and it figures out where the disk is from the -r ?

That won't work like you want.  You'll end up with a boot loader
on the backup disk that contains the 'physical' location of
the /boot/map file on the main disk.  That won't necessarily
be the same as the backup disk.

I can't think of a right way to do his with LILO.  I've got
a similar seup on my home machine (rsync to a backup disk
every night), but I'll be pulling out the RH install CDs to
get LILO sorted if I have to do a disk swap.

GRUB should be able to handle this no problem, since it
doesn't record sector numbers like LILO does.  Not much help
for you though...

Later,
Kenn