Re: [mu SETUP] cloning problem.

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Thu Sep 20 2001 - 09:52:15 CEST


On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 04:40:17PM +1000, Tony Delov nicely wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm having a few problems trying to clone mulinux onto a hard drive.
> Everything seems to install and copy over onto the hard drive.
> But it dosent seem like lilo is writing to the master boot record?
> It puts a copy of the lilo.conf in the tmp directory and suggest that I look at it?
> I also get erros if I try to run
> "lilo -C /tmp/lilo.conf"
>

This is only for reference.

The script do that:

                # mount the disk on /mnt
                # cat /tmp/lilo.conf | lilo -C - -r /mnt

It use the "-r" feature in lilo, i.e. /mnt is taken as root for the
command.

Check if the kernel is in the right place.

Michele

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