Borsenkow Andrej wrote: >>I had this problem last night when installing 8.1 It may be fixed in >>cooker, >>but just in case.... >> >>When installing Mandrake on a mixed system, SCSI and IDE drives, and >> >the > >>system is set to boot off the SCSI drives, LILO writes the boot device >> >as > >>/dev/hdc. It should be /dev/sda. >> > >Have not it asked you from where to install bootloader? At least, it >does it in expert mode, never tried recommended actually. > > >-andrej > > Yes it does ask, but still seems to pick an ide drive. I had a similar problem. Scenario: Mixed ide/scsi system booting from /dev/sda running cooker. Used urpmi --auto-select to update cooker. This installed a new kernel and updated lilo.conf. Ran lilo before restarting and it complained that /dev/sda was not the first drive, unfortnately I ignored the warning. The system restarted with LI and stopped. I rebooted with a rescue disk and re-ran lilo. Once again complained that /dev/sda was not the first drive. Once again booted to LI and stopped. I checked the bios to make sure it had not changed the boot order, it had not. Booted off the rescue disk again and ran drakboot to change to Grub. Grub would not boot either, just hung at startup. I needed to actually use the box for something so I grabbed 8.1 and did a fresh, expert install. When it came to the boot loader section it had picked /dev/hda to install the boot loader to. I changed it to /dev/sda and finished the install. Restarted after the install and it hung displaying LI again. Grabbed a DOS disk and ran fdisk /mbr, booted off the rescue disk and re-ran lilo. Complained that /dev/sda was not the first disk. Restarted back to the familiar LI screen. Got mad, yanked all my ide drives out and reinstalled with only the scsi disks in the system. Worked fine this way. :) Plugged my ide drives back in after the reinstall and have not had a booting problem since, but I haven't changed my kernel since then either and have only rebooted two or three times.
Not sure why this happened, it had booted fine from /dev/sda for almost a year and then suddenly didn't think it should boot off a scsi disk anymore. Sometime, when and if I find the time, I may experiment further, unfortunately I can't right now. - Pete
