On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Friday 20 April 2001 11:40, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote: > > I have problems booting my system from new HD. > > > > I've got: > > - ABIT KT7 > > - Seagate connected to first channel (as /dev/hda) > > - CD-ROM as /dev/hdc > > - new disk (DTLA 307030) connected to HPT370 as /dev/hde > > > > I want to boot my system form /dev/hde, ( I want to be able to take > > /dev/hda away sometimes, and still be able to boot my system, of course > > after rerunning lilo). > > > > If new disk is the only one being seen by BIOS ( Seagate is disabled in > > bios setup) it works fine - new disk is 0x80 in BIOS. > > On the other hand when 2 disk are available, LILO stops after "LI". > > Of course I rerun lilo on every change. I guess it tries to access not the > > right drive. > > What will be the bios drive number of my new disk, when both are turned on > > ? 0x81 ? > > 0x81 sounds reasonable, but really it could be anything. The only thing to > do is to try telling LILO to use 0x81 and see if that makes it boot! It's already solved (by me :) ) - nobody proposed to put there 0x80. It works ! Actually, if I setup my BIOS to boot from RAID first , dev/hde becomes 0x80 and /dev/hda becomes 0x81 ! I guess (not checked) that drive selected to boot from always becomes 0x80 - that's why DOS knows how to load itself - it loads itself from 0x80 always ! If U boot from first drive there's no problem , because lilo figures it out as 0x80. disk = /dev/hde bios = 0x80 Voilla ! Well, now it's pretty trivial for me ;) but I've spent much time figuring it out. Maybe someone should include it in some faq ? Greetings -=Czaj-nick=-
