Actually there are options within the lilo.conf file to set/reset the BIOS numbers of the drives. If you read the man page for lilo.conf, you'll see an option: disk=/dev/....
that option has a "sub-option" to set the BIOS number. I realize it probably is not going to satisfy Steve's original request but it might be helpful to some. I had a system a while back with two drives; hda had COL 1.2 and hdb had Win95. At the LILO prompt if I simply booted Win95 it tried to run as D: but I was able to fix that with this option. Brad. --- Net Llama! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Drive designations are contreolled by your BIOS. > You can't change these > via software. > > On Tue, 5 Nov 2002, steve rader wrote: > > > > > Does anyone know how (if possible) to tell lilo to > write a MBR > > to, say /dev/sdb (the "second disk" eg bios=0x81) > such that it > > will boot as /dev/sda?? I think I have tried all > reasonable > > combinations of chroot and lilo.conf disk= and > bios= tricks > > with no success. > > > > Failing that, does anyone have a recommendation of > floppy > > boot linux distro to use for automating writing > the MBR via > > a boot-in-memory-then-write-lilo tact? > > > > steve > > - - - > > systems & network guy > > high energy physics > > university of wisconsin > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-users mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> > http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > > > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Lonni J Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo > http://netllama.ipfox.com > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
