I had a few questions about lilo (see my post about upgrading the
kernel to find out how they came up)...
When I initially installed Mandrake 5.3, my system was all-SCSI--my
hard drives, CD-ROMs, zip, jaz, etc. were all on a Diamond Fireport 40
Dual board. This worked fine. After I got that up and running, I heard
about vmware, and decided it'd be cool to play with it. I hooked up an
IDE drive to store the vmware data, set it to mount in the right place
(/home/danb/vmware), etc. Everything continued to work just fine.
Then, last night, I decided to upgrade my kernel. I built the new
kernel, copied it into /boot, and edited lilo.conf. When I ran lilo,
though, I got an error message to the effect that /dev/sda3 (which is
where linux boots from) was not on the first disk--and when I rebooted,
it stopped at "LI".
After a few hours of messing around, I got the system to boot from a
boot floppy, but lilo still gave the same error. Once I unplugged the
IDE drive, lilo installed without a problem, the system booted, and
everything worked fine. When I hooked the IDE drive back up, it still
worked fine--the system still booted, recognized the drive, etc (though
I didn't try running lilo again).
Is this just the way lilo works? Will I need to unplug my IDE drive
every time I want to change my lilo settings? Or is there some way
around this? Thanks for any help!
--
Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good
with ketchup.
