[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > That would be one way, yes. Usually the install will suggest you > let it make a boot floppy, but if it didn't, not to worry. The > install boot floppy or CD (if you can boot the CD) can be used as an > emergency boot floppy. As long as I remember my last tries to make it working, Caldera's boot disk that I've made, finished also after "LI" :-) > If at the lilo prompt you hit tab lilo will list the names it knows how > to boot. That might give you a clue. It's no use of that, because, after the re-boot of the newly installed Linux, I get nothing except of "LI". So there is no LILO prompt available for me to do anything with it. > If you have both IDE and SCSI drives on your machine, lilo has no way > to tell which the BIOS thinks is first, and will guess the IDE. If the > BIOS is set so the SCSI drives are first, you must tell lilo: > > disk = /dev/sda > bios = 0x80 > disk = /dev/hda > bios = 0x81 > Somewhere else you suggested me to put something similar but not the same: device = /dev/sda bios = 0x80 (or something like that) Is it the same to put either 'disk' or 'device'? > I have had reports that BIOS's that let you boot from other than the > first hd act as if whichever hd was booted is the first hd, and has to > be addressed as 0x80. In that case, if you boot FI /dev/hdb with the > BIOS to start lilo, you will have to tell lilo > > disk = /dev/hdb > bios = 0x80 > Well, the last thing you have put in your micro-howto is interesting. But, I suppose that my system BIOS also likes to boot only from the first disk and won't allow other disks to be 'bootable'. Maybe I could give it a try too. Does it mean that every disk (in a multi-disk system) that pretends to be the 'master one', should be recognized as 0x80 anyway? Misko - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
