According to matthew.mcgrievy: While burning my CPU.
>
> 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.
The "LI" problem has to do with disk geometry and/or moving /boot/boot.b
without running lilo.
So it would seem to me like you need to tell lilo about the other drive in
some way or another, i'm sorry to be vauge on this but i dont have scsi
drives.
There is a very good document on LILO it can be found on your system in
/usr/doc/lilo*/README it must be one of the most important and explanatry
documents that the doc directory holds, yes you mention you have taken
examples from the readme, but often not the file mentioned above its 126914
bytes long and well worth the time to read. Now if you have read it my
appols, i grepped for FD and 16x0 but i cant find any referance which leads
me to belive you mean a mini doc over LILO. I am quite sure your answer is
in the large README.
>
> 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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> Matt McGrievy
> Computer Services Librarian
> University of Alabama
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