Hi,
I'm having a problem that I hope someone can help me solve. I'm getting
the dreaded "LI" when I boot up and I can't seem to get rid of it.
Here's some background: I'm running RH 5.2, kernel 2.0.36, on an old dell
P100 with a Future Domain 1680 scsi controller (bios 3.5). I have two
identical seagate 2gb drives at IDs 1 (sda) and 2 (sdb). I dual boot from
an IDE drive.
Everything worked fine until I put the second scsi drive in - that's when
lilo seemed to break. The lilo readme mentions that there is an issue
with FD 16x0 assigning bios device numbers in the wrong order and to put a
disk section in lilo.conf - did that and re-ran lilo, but still no luck.
It boots fine from a floppy or if I disconnect sdb. Furthermore, if I
boot from floppy (with sdb connected) I can mount the drive and view the
contents with ls. Anyone have any ideas? My lilo.conf and bootdisk
lilo.conf follow:
#/etc/lilo.conf
boot = /dev/hda
disk=/dev/sda #lines lilo
bios=0x81 #readme tells
disk=/dev/sdb #me to
bios=0x80 #put in
timeout = 50
prompt
default = dos
vga = normal
read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label = linux
initrd = /boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
root = /dev/sda1
other = /dev/hda1
label = dos
table=/dev/hda
#Boot disk lilo.conf
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/initrd.img
image=/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=rescue
append="load_ramdisk=2 prompt_ramdisk=1"
root=/dev/fd0
initrd=/initrd.img
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