It means you haven't set up lilo correctly. /dev/hdb1 is the 1st partition
on the slave hard drive of your primary controler. The message means its not
there.
If you want to set the system to boot from the hard disk rather than the
floppy, look in the bios.
----- Original Message -----
From: Michael Hatzakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 8:57 PM
Subject: [newbie] Lilo Failure
> Trying to get my system to boot from the hard drive not the floppy. When
> I run lilo and klilo, I get the error message:
>
> "Warning: /dev/hdb1 is not on the first disk"
>
> That does this mean exactly?
>
> Thanks, Michael
>
>
>
