Re: xfs and lilo on a second disk

["Thomas Duffy" <duffy_thomas@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

hey Rob!  long time no hear!

the problem is most likely a result of a mismatch between what linux thinks 
is int 80 and what the bios thinks is int 80.

I would suggest that you but hdb into the hda slot, then boot off of a 
recovery CD and mount the drive.

change the lilo.conf to point to hda and rerun lilo.

the other option, if you do not like the idea of using a recovery CD is to 
specifically tell lilo that hdb is int 80 by doing something like this...

                 disk=/dev/hda
                         bios=0x80

-tduffy


> Hi there,
>
>         I put xfs onto my RH7.1 system by first upgrading the
> RPMs, adding a disk, making xfs partitions, and the cp -a
> each of the partitions to the new xfs partitions.
>
>         I modified lilo.conf to do the right thing, and ran
> lilo chrooted and pointing to the right disk, then ran lilo.
> I swapped drives (pri and sec), and get "LI" instead of
> LILO.
>
>         I then switched pir and sec drives so that the original
> pri is pri again, and added an 'xfs' stanza to the lilo.conf.
> This boots the sec drive nicely.
>
>         I tried to run LILO from this again, but with the same LI
> result.
>
>         So how should I get LILO booting off this new drive so
> that I can put the old drive to use someplace else?
>
>         I've been using Linux since '92, so I've tried all the
> obvious stuff.
>
>         Below is my lilo.conf.  Note that right now, /dev/hdb is
> the xfs disk that I want to make /dev/hda, hence the /dev/hda and
> /dev/hdb inconsistency.  WHen I run lilo, it should (and does)
> modify /dev/hdb, when I boot, it is configed as /dev/hda.
>
> thanks,
> rob
>
>
>
> boot=/dev/hdb
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> linear
> default=linux
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0
>         label=linux
>         read-only
>         append="root=/dev/hda6"
> #       root=/dev/hda6

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