[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 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.
Depending on the system BIOS and its features there is no intrinsic problem in
mixing IDE & SCSI in the same system. As I stated in a previous posting, I
have been doing this for some time on my home system. The motherboard is an
ASUS XP55T2P4 ATX board with an intel 166MHz MMX CPU, a BusLogic 948 SCSI
card, and the following drives: IBM DCHS 9.1GB SCSI drive as /dev/sdb,
SEAGATE 1.0GB SCSI drive as /dev/sda, and an IBM 4.3GB EIDE drive, mounted as
/dev/hda. I booted with LILO in the past, and currently with the OS/2 boot
manager which came with Partition Magic.
The only requirement is to go into your BIOS settings and see if you BIOS
offers the option to select booting from SCSI. Mine does; works fine. If
that option is there you should have no problems.
If the option isn't there then your system will always try to boot from the
first EIDE drive. There are a couple of ways to avoid this being a problem.
The OS/2 boot manager is one of them; another simple way is to create a very
small (order of 8 MB) partition on the IDE drive and mount that as /boot;
mounting from the kernel there. Put everything else on the SCSI drive and
install LILO to the MBR of the IDE drive. This should work cleanly.
Best
rickf
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