[lug] Moving /

[John Karns]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Dhruva Reddy said:

> Here is what I have tried:
>
>     lilo -r /spare
>
> It complains about the missing /boot/boot.b (which is
> on a different partition).

I believe if you mount your boot partition to a mountpoint on your new
root partition - i.e., mount it as /spare/boot, that might address the
problem.  I have always done the chroot part manually; e.g.,

chroot /spare /sbin/lilo

rather than using the -r parm with lilo, as you may not be seeing certain
errors:

  Alternatively, you can directly use /sbin/lilo instead of chroot. The
  -r option of lilo actually does chroot.  It is very strongly recom.
  mended that you use chroot, instead of lilo -r, as it is more conve.
  nient and can catch errors more easily.

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John Karns                                        jkarns at csd.net