When I installed I used Expert Install. I told it to use SDA as boot device but it still wrote boot=/dev/hda to lilo.conf. When I rebooted, the system just sat there with just a blinking cursor. I didn't even get any of the "LILO" display. I set the system to boot from IDE and got "LI" I then set it back to boot from SCSI and ran rescue. I went into lilo.conf and changed the first line to read boot=/dev/sda Everything works fine now.
System Config: /dev/sda=/ /dev/sdb=/usr /dev/sdc=/home /dev/hdc=/windows Like I said, everything works fine now. If you're sure it was something I missed, then OK that's fine. If not, I'm just trying to help make a wonderful distro better....:) Steve -----Original Message----- From: Guillaume Cottenceau [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, November 26, 2001 9:53 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Cooker] LILO and Boot Device "Thomas, Stephen W-CONT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. There is no way from DrakX to know if the BIOS is set up to boot off SCSI first or IDE first, so when there is not guess, it's assumed that IDE is first. When you choose to install the booloader on /dev/sda (expert mode), it should install the bootloader on /dev/sda and assume that the first disk is /dev/sda, thus boot correctly. -- Guillaume Cottenceau - http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
