You might also look into the boot order setting in your bios. On my bios
at least, I can set it to something like A,SCSI,C and and it searches the
floppy drive for boot, then the first scsi disk, then the C drive. I
don't know about any other architechres, but there should be a way to do
it. Why can't you write the kernel boot image to the ide drive? Once the
krenel is loaded, it doesn't need to access the drive. I used to have
windows on an ide drive and linux on a couple of scsi drives. I just
wrote the lilo to hda and told it that the root partition was sda1. You
may look into that as well.
-CJO-
On Sat, 6 Feb 1999, Claudiu Balciza wrote:
>Adding one IDE controller with 2 disks to one of our (all SCSI) servers, lilo warned
>me about sda not being the first drive. Indeed, it wouldn't boot any more.
>As both IDE's were meant for nightly backup, they were supposed to sleep alll day.
>That's why "root on IDE" was not agreed.
>
>So I removed the power plug from the IDE drives, erased the IDE controller definition
>from the bios (ok it's a DIGITAL SERVER with no BIOS setup screen, just a intricate
>program on CD).
>Then reboot. (SCSI only) and /sbin/lilo. It worked.
>Power off. Plug power on IDE. Boot.
>It (still) works !
>
>Any other solutions ?
>
>Claudiu
>
C.J. Oster (Linux Guru/Surge Addict)
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