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Re: Hard-disk Change



On Tue, 1 Sep 1998 09:42:24 +0300 (IDT), Schlomo Schapiro
<schapiro@inter.net.il> wrote:

>Hi,
>here is what I did to move my system:
>booted mu-Linux (a one diskette linux), mounted old disk in /old, formated
>new disk and mounted in /new, cp -a /old /new. That's it and it worked
>very well for me.
>
>Schlomo

I think you need to run /sbin/lilo with the correct option to reinstall the
boot sector for your new disk, otherwise your new disk will not boot. Also, if
your partition number has changed, you must also modify lilo.conf before
running lilo.

Udi