On Thu, 16 Dec 1999, Bart Van Oudenhove wrote about, Weird LILO error message:
> Hi all,
>
> I had a system with 4 SCSI HD's.
> /dev/sda = win98
> /dev/sdb = Red Hat
>
> LILO was working fine, until I added 3 IDE HD's
>
> I wanted to change the timeout, so I edited the /etc/lilo.conf and executed
> "lilo" again, it have me the following errors :
>
>
> Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> Added Linux *
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> Added Kernel2
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> Added dos
>
>
> Since then @ boot time LILO hangs, it just says "LI_", I checked the docs
> and they say it's because of a BIOS limitation that you have to put LILO on
> the 1st or 2nd disk in your system. I don't know why it doesn't work cause
> /dev/sda is the first disk in my system.
> Since then I can only boot Linux with my boot disk.
>
> Who knows why ?
The root file system is beyond the 1023 cyls boundry.
The documents to read are in /usr/doc/lilo-version-number.
They will explain what to do and how-to do it.
I belive there is an append parameter which tells lilo to ignore IDE disks.
For more information check out the archives at;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
Use the search engine there to find a "Keyword"
Configuration information at;
http://www.linuxtopia.com
> I have R/W access to all SCSI & IDE disks once the system is up.
>
>
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