On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I picked up an 18G Western Digital drive today that hangs off the Ultra66
> interface of my BP6 board.
>
> I've taken a rather circuitous route in putting this drive into service
> because it doesn't appear that the 6.1 CD uses a boot kernel that recognizes
> the interface. I ended up booting on my old drive, mounting the new one,
> and copying everything over. That part went fine.
>
> In order to boot from the drive, I needed to get LILO into the MBR. No
> problem, edit /etc/lilo.conf and /etc/fstab and write the new boot block,
> right? It looked that way. I ended up with just 'LI' on the screen.
>
> Booted with the install CD and got that fixed up (remind me sometime to post
> about how to use the install CD for rescueing boot problems!)
>
> I've now got a system that shows only the /dev/hde (the new drive) being
> mounted, yet file accesses are _really_ going to the old /dev/hda. Okay,
> boot with "linux root=/dev/hde3" and we're off.
>
> I edited /etc/lilo.conf and ensured that everything mentioned /dev/hde as
> well as ensuring that /etc/fstab was correcty. Reran LILO and rebooted the
> system.
>
> All I get is 01's rolling through the screen. I'm now just using "linux
> root=/dev/hde3" to boot my machine and use the new drive. It'll work until
> I can get this sorted out...
>
> I'm sure it's something incredibly stupid, but what have I missed?
I haven't installed onto hde yet, but thanks to someone on cooker list i
remebered howto get hde recognised without the ide patchs.
use 'ide2=0xd800 ide3=0xec00' when you boot from cd, and insert them when
lilo asks for appends.
There is also a trick for makeing it think it's hda but it escapes me ATM
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