[H-GEN] quick Q

[David Jericho]

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On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:48:37PM +1000, Patrick Nichols wrote:
> The easiest way I found to make the new drive bootable was to simply boot it
> from a floppy, and rerun lilo.  (Once I'd removed the old drive and put the
> new one onto that controller)

muffy# /sbin/lilo -r /newdrivemountpoint 

usually works. Assuming of course you have a correctly written lilo.conf 

Or you could always check out GRUB, Your Superior Boot Loader(tm).

Features of GRUB:
	o Supports network booting, without a network bootable NIC
	o Understands file systems
		o FAT/FAT32
		o ReiserFS
		o Ext2/3
		o UFS
		o AFS
		o a few others via modular support
	o Serial console support
	o With a write protected MBR, you can _always_ boot
	o Multiboot compatible
	o Ability to boot non multiboot OSes via chainloading or image loading
	o Modular design
	o Config file can be edited from your favourite OS, no need to rerun
		it after changing the config file or other files.
	o Nice simple menu interface for those less experienced with computers
	o Has full command line interface with tab completion 
	o Supports automatic decompression of compressed boot files
	o Any device that can be access via a BIOS, can be accessed via GRUB
	o Can remap device addresses (i.e. make hda hdb, and vice versa)
	o It's GNU software
	
-- 
David Jericho, Systems Administrator
WebMatchIT Interactive Marketing

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