I wasn't particular clear there, I meant to refer to HIS system, not all
systems. You are correct that some BIOSes don't have this "feature".
Further, I was assuming that his BIOS didn't, and it's possible that it
does. I assumed that if it had this capability, he'd have seen it, but in
hindsight I should perhaps have not assumed this based on the user's
apparant level of knowledge.
However, LILO won't make your system boot from a SCSI drive if your BIOS
doesn't allow it.
What LILO can do is boot from an IDE drive's MBR, and then load Linux from a
SCSI partition. That's why LILO stands for "Linux Loader" not "Linux
Booter". Otherwise it'd be LIBO. :-)
So it doesn't overcome the limitation at all; it's completely subject to it.
But, it does let you load the OS from wherever you want anyway. So you're
half correct, and it's more a matter of symantics; you're using "booting" to
mean both "booting" and "loading the OS" whereas I was using it in it's more
strict current definition, which isn't really any more correct than the
definition you're using, considering the lineage of "boot".
-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Wreski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, April 29, 1998 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: 01010101 again
>
>> If you have an IDE drive in your system, you can't boot from a SCSI
drive.
>> That's a "feature" of the BIOS, not of Linux, so there's nothing Linux
can
>> do about it.
>
>No, this is not correct. It is dependant upon your computer's BIOS, as
>well as the SCSI adapter's BIOS. And using lilo you can overcome many of
>those limitations as well.
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