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<P>I thought lilo could handle being run without chroot but passing a file system root parameter - eg if your filesystem is mounted on /mnt temporarily then you pass --root=/mnt (example parameter, not the real thing, the man page is your friend). It will then also look for all files (and place all necessary files) relative to that path.</P>
<P>Pretty certain that this is how installers run lilo without having to chroot, and I'm also fairly certain I have done it myself this way.<BR>
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<B>On Thu Feb 23 11:27 , 'Jonathan Young' <jonathan@pcphix.com> sent:<BR>
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OK, fstab reports hda1 is swap and hda2 is / (ext3) and no other<BR>
paritions proc mounted from /proc (which as I understand it means from /<BR>
once it is mounted.<BR>
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Therefore, I have all the info I need to chroot and run Lilo if a simple<BR>
edit of lilo.conf does not work (remove the -menu bit) so that it<BR>
reflects the files that are there.<BR>
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or can I rename /boot/boot.b to /boot/boot-menu.b ??<BR>
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I was actually considering downloading the lilo for Ubuntu and installing<BR>
it to my Live installation but chroot is a much smarter solution.<BR>
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Either way, my current conerns are:<BR>
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(see previous posts)<BR>
like a regular file - what's the deal (clearly a gap in my knowledge<BR>
here)?<BR>
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Any final suggestions before I chroot and blow Lilo away?<BR>
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On 2/23/2006, "Jonathan Young" <<A href="javascript:top.opencompose('jonathan@pcphix.com','','','')">jonathan@pcphix.com</A>> wrote:<BR>
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<FONT color=red>>Of course! /me slaps forehead (and remembers what panic does to logical</FONT><BR>
<FONT color=red>>thinking)</FONT><BR>
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<FONT color=red>>On 2/23/2006, "Senectus ." <<A href="javascript:top.opencompose('senectus@gmail.com','','','')">senectus@gmail.com</A>> wrote:</FONT><BR>
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<FONT color=red>>>On 2/23/06, Jonathan Young <<A href="javascript:top.opencompose('jonathan@pcphix.com','','','')">jonathan@pcphix.com</A>> wrote:</FONT><BR>
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<FONT color=red>>>> I'm working through it slowly. My main problem is I don't know the</FONT><BR>
<FONT color=red>>>> layout of this drive (new client).</FONT><BR>
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<FONT color=red>>>> I know hda1 is swap and hda2 is the root/main partition.</FONT><BR>
<FONT color=red>>>> Anyway to find out if there are any others? Just mount them in sequence?</FONT><BR>
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<FONT color=red>>>/etc/fstab should give you the lowdown on how it's normally setup..</FONT><BR>
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