Eduard Bloch wrote:
>>The machine had 2 disks: hdc as the target, hdd as the source. There was
>
> This configuration is not a sane one. Your BIOS maybe can map hdc to the
> "first" boot disk from the DOS' point of view, but Linux does not know
> anything about such tricks.
Well, it seems to just work fine. :-o
>>nothing on the primary IDE interface. After choosing to install lilo in
>>the MBR, it only offered to install it into hda. Then lilo tried that,
>
> Well, this is apparently a bug, but not easy to fix. We could modify the
> LILO installation method to detect such situations, but it would cause
> some interaction with users which probably would not understand what the
> problem is.
That's true, *I* don't really know what's the problem. :)
>>correcting it to boot=/dev/hdc lilo installed itself succesfully, and
>>the system could boot.
>
> Sure you could? Normally, this would fail since LILO threats hdc as 0x82
Yes, I can boot flawlessly with that setup. If it shouldn't work I can
post all the details of my HW and config files, just ask.
Bye,
Bug Hunter
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