I don't think that you have to reformate the drive. Has the disk been the
primary one before? It should also be enough to boot from floppy and edit the
/etc/lilo.conf manually to boot from /dev/hdbx.
Much luck!
> well, so Linux allocates the drive designation /dev/hdbx based on it's
> read of the IDE channel. So, Ineed to change the placement of the drive
> on the cable? So, if I correct this, then do I need to re-format/re-write
> the partition table to get the drive re-asigned to /dev/hdax?
>
> Thanks, Michael
>
> On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Hellmut wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > It means that /dev/hda1 would be on the first disk.
> > /dev/hda is the primary channel of the first ide string (Or whatever it is
> > called in English).
> > /dev/hdb is the secondary channel of the first ide string.
> > I don't use klilo anymore, it destroyed my lilo too...
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > >
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