Well, this is looking like its more work then I thought. I did go into my bios
and try to disable the option of using the 1st IDE device as the third boot
option behind the floppy and the cdrom, but that didn't work, it still booted
from the IDE drive. So now I have to decide what to do. I had no idea when I
started that the system would default to booting off of the IDE drive.
I am looking at using your first option of installing Lilo on the IDE disk, but
I'm wondering how I am going to deal with that after installing Win2K. Can I just
go ahead and install Win2K on the IDE disk and then use a boot disk to install
Lilo afterwards? There must be some better way of disabling the system from
booting from the IDE disk.
I would like to experiment too, but I don't want to hurt my linux install if I
can help it.
Aaron
"Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Aaron Prohaska wrote:
>
> > Mikkel, can you explain what this does?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> > "Mikkel L. Ellertson" wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> > >
> > > If you have your BIOS set to boot off the SCSI drives, (It sounds
> > > like you do.), remove the IDE drive, boot to Linux, and add the following
> > > lines to your /etc/lilo.conf file.
> > >
> > > disk=/dev/sda
> > > bios=0x80
> > > disk=/dev/sdb
> > > bios=0x81
> > >
> > > Run LILO, and then all should be fine when you re-install the IDE drive.
> > >
> > > Mikkel
> >
> >From reading the messages from after I posted this, (and I went to bed),
> you do not want to use this. What it is for is when you can select
> booting from SCSI drives in your BIOS. It lets LILO know that your SCSI
> drives are the first two hard drives in the BIOS numbering. LILO has no
> way to tell how your BIOS numbers the drives, so it defaults to IDE drives
> first, and then SCSI drives.
>
> >From the sound of things, your BIOS does not support booting from SCSI
> drives, but your SCSI controler card has its own BIOS that will override
> your BIOS. (I am guessing here!) If this is the case, you can go two
> different routes. The simplest way is to boot from a boot disk and
> reconfigure LILO to install on the MBR on the IDE drive. (boot=/dev/hda)
>
> You may also be able to get away with adding:
> disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x81
>
> This tells LILO that your first SCSI drive is the second drive the BIOS
> sees. The problem with this is that if you add another IDE drive, or
> remove the IDE drive, it breaks LILO!
>
> Also, depending on your SCSI bios, I am not sure what will happen when the
> IDE drive is formatted, and has a valid primary partation that is marked
> active. Your system may then try and boot from the IDE drive. I would
> love to play with the system to see what would happen, but it is probably
> more expermenting then you want to do...
>
> Mikkel
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