I know I'm late joining this discussion, but:
lilo's bootstrap loader (first stage) is loaded by bios from the boot
sector of the first hard drive it detects. (can be scsi if the bios can be
set to load frim scsi...) LILO needs to load from one of the first two hard
drives, and usually from below 1023 cylinders. The first detected drives
are the IDE chain, then the scsi. ata 66 I believe is handled like scsi.
Since lilo uses bios to load, and some bioses won't boot from scsi when ide
is present.... it may not be able to see the rest of its boot segment even
though lilo evidently has the first part of itself in the ide drive boot
sector. When lilo only gets to LI on boot it means it can't get its
second stage loader started. It looks like the suggestion to move the boot
stuff to a boot partition on the ide drive is the correct solution. ...
BUT .. You didn't say whether you made these changes to lilo booted from a
floppy, or if it booted once from the scsi drive with the ide drive in
place??? until you had run lilo again??
brian :)
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At 07:50 AM 4/28/00 -0400, you wrote:
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>I've had half of this problem, try putting in 127 your lilo.conf file and
>see if it boots, if not, keep stepping it down by one or two and keep
>trying it. I have 320 megs of ram in my box and I had to put 300 in my
>lilo.conf file before it would boot. I am running RH 6.1, but it sounds
>like the same problem.
>
>about the other problem, boot on a floppy and run fdisk and make sure the
>original drive is still set as the active partition.
>
>On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Edward Moon wrote:
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>> I've got Redhat 6.2 installed on a 17GB IBM Ultra SCSI hard drive
>> connected to a TekRam 390B (Symbios chipset) SCSI controller.
>>
>> Until the following events, I was able to boot into Linux from the
>> SCSI hard drive (/dev/sda) which held the boot partition (/boot on
>> /dev/sda1). I recently added a 13GB Maxtor IDE drive as supplemental
>> storage. I also added an Adaptec 2901 PCI SCSI controller (no
>> boot-rom, external connector only).
>>
>> I discovered that only 64MB of the installed 128MB RAM was
>> recognized. I edited lilo.conf and added 'append = "mem=128M" and ran
>> lilo and I got a message "Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk".
>>
>> When I rebooted the PC, lilo freezes after "LI".
>>
>> I've tried various options in lilo.conf (pointing to /dev/sda1,
>> /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, removing the append = "mem=128M" line), but I
>> can't boot the PC without using a boot floppy.
>>
>> I've also updated to the new version of lilo (21.4-2) that breaks the
>> 1024 cylinder barrier, but that hasn't changed anything.
>>
>> Can anyone help me boot from either of my hard drives? The only thing
>> I can think of doing now is backing up my data and reinstalling
>> RedHat 6.2 with the /boot partition on /dev/hda instead of on
>> /dev/sda.
>>
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