Ron Golan writes:
> Well, I just reinstalled everything and recompiled the kernel as before.
> The only thing I did differently was to shutdown, and to *remove* the IDE
> drive before compiling and running /sbin/lilo. This time I didn't get the
> warning regarding sda not being the first disk.
>
> It seems that when an IDE drive is connected, even though not mounted Linux
> forces it to be the first disk. I guess this is why they say not to mix
> SCSI and IDE. It doesn't seem like it would be a problem if you wanted the
> IDE to be the first disk. By the way, the root partition (sda1) is only 100
> cylinders, so this had nothing to do with the problem.
A small addition from my experience: It also matters whether the (E)IDE disk
is on the first or on the second IDE controller... I once had a setup with an
EIDE disk as hdc (second controller) and an EIDE CD-ROM as hda (first
controller) and a SCSI disk (sda), and as far as I remember, the SCSI got
recognised as the first disk. When I swapped the CD-ROM and the EIDE disk, the
EIDE disk was recognised as first disk. This was under RHL 4.2.
Unfortunately, I ended up having the EIDE first anyway, as I'm running a dual
boot system with Windoze 3.1 (which doesn't like to come second... I wonder
why... :-{ ), so I didn't investigate this further.
Just my £0.02,
Thomas
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