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RE: [ProgSoc] lilo problems.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Edney [mailto:plasma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, 23 June 2005 9:45 PM
> To: vik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: nbsherid@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; progsoc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ProgSoc] lilo problems.
> 
> On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 11:34 am, vik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > How would renaming help? Doesn't that just change the filename entry and
> > nothing else? I'm still struggling to understand what /boot/map does,
> but
> > I can read/copy the entire file, so it's not an I/O error reading it.
> I'm
> > guessing the I/O error comes when it tries to put this in the bootsector
> > of the drive or something like this?
> 
> Hmm, possible I guess.  I may be totally wrong, but isn't it possible to
> write
> to the boot sector of the newer drive, yet still have it correctly
> transfer
> execution to the kernel on the older drive?  Thereby getting around any
> problems with the old drive's boot sector, by simply changing the BIOS to
> boot from the other drive?



Well I'm no expert but I thought LILO might recreate the file in a different
inode... ?

http://user.fundy.net/cyclist/linux/troubleshoot-LILO.html

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Nigel Sheridan-Smith
PhD research student

Faculty of Engineering
University of Technology, Sydney
Phone: 02 9514 7946
Fax: 02 9514 2435


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