The BIOS in question does allow for booting in SCSI,A,C order. I changed to
this option after getting 0101010 and it made no difference. Perhaps I
should have done this before updating LILO, not after.
>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".
>
Ron Golan
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