Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3242 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 15 September 2001 22.49, Patrick Nelson wrote:
> Patrick Nelson wrote:
> ----------------->>>>
> Understand, but boot acts different so I want to make sure that I'm doing
> it right.  Here is how boot acts different:
>
> 1.  No entry in fstab
> 2.  Called out in lilo.conf as boot=/dev/hda
> 3.  Doesn't show up with df command
> 4.  Can't unmount it
>
> One thing I've noticed is that on the new drive where I've created and then
> copied the files of the boot partition (/dev/hda1 is new the new boot and
> /dev/hdb1 is old boot) it is mountable (mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/tmpmnt1) and
> the old boot isn't mountable (mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/tmpmnt2) saying device
> is busy.  To me this says that lilo isn't booting off the new mount point
> using the boot=/dev/hda.  Yes I've run lilo and rebooted!  Anyone have
> input on this?
> ----------------->>>>
> OK so I sat down and painstakingly read trough lilo docs and I believe I
> now know what question to ask now...duh!
>
> I'm moving the /boot partition over from /dev/hdb1 to /dev/hda1.  I've
> created the partition and it is a primary that is bootable.  It is 50 MB
> and is the first partition on the drive.  The partition table looks like:
>
> Device    Boot Start End  Blocks  Id System
> /dev/hda1 *    1     13    52384+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda2      14    875 3475584  83 Linux
>
> I mounted the new /dev/hda1 and copied all files from /boot to it.
>
> In lilo.conf it has boot=/dev/hda so running lilo seems doesn't change
> where to get the boot partition.  This seems to be written from current
> setup. So...
>
> How do I config the system to stop loading /boot from /dev/hdb1 and start
> using /dev/hda1?

Did you run lilo while /dev/hda1 was mounted on /boot?