Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Wakko Warner
> > > Is there a reason that it does this? > > > > I believe there is. It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h. > > Yes. > > > I had a machine at work with both ide and scsi. ide hdd was hdc and ide > > cdrom was hda just to keep lilo from thinking hdc is the first bios drive > > which

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:08:55AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > (But you must distinguish people. One complains about the probing, > another about the numbering. The bios keyword tells lilo about > the numbering, and it works.) Well, shouldn't lilo avoid probing if you pass bios=? Currently

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Guest section DW
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:03:32PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:01:07AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > > But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5): > > It doesn't help. Of course it does. (But you must distinguish people. One complains about the

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:01:07AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5): It doesn't help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Guest section DW
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:03:31PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: > > > Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. > > > There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. > > > > Sure it isn't a problem, but it's really annoying if it won't need to > > touch hda anyway. >

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Wakko Warner writes: > I believe there is. It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h. Really > annoying since there's no way (correct me if I'm wrong) to read bios from > linux. If there is, lilo should do that. But since it's an old copy, this > probably was fixed. > > I had a machine

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Wakko Warner
> > cache_add("/dev/hda",0x300); > > for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) { > > sprintf(tmp,"/dev/hda%d",i); > > cache_add(tmp,0x300+i); > > > > Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. > > There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. > > Sure it

[OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Lehmann
> cache_add("/dev/hda",0x300); > for (i = 1; i <= 8; i++) { > sprintf(tmp,"/dev/hda%d",i); > cache_add(tmp,0x300+i); > > Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. > There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. Sure it isn't a problem, but

[OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Lehmann
cache_add(/dev/hda,0x300); for (i = 1; i = 8; i++) { sprintf(tmp,/dev/hda%d,i); cache_add(tmp,0x300+i); Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. Sure it isn't a problem, but it's really

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Wakko Warner
cache_add(/dev/hda,0x300); for (i = 1; i = 8; i++) { sprintf(tmp,/dev/hda%d,i); cache_add(tmp,0x300+i); Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. Sure it isn't a problem, but

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Wakko Warner writes: I believe there is. It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h. Really annoying since there's no way (correct me if I'm wrong) to read bios from linux. If there is, lilo should do that. But since it's an old copy, this probably was fixed. I had a machine at work

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:01:07AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5): It doesn't help. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Guest section DW
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:03:31PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote: Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info. There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem. Sure it isn't a problem, but it's really annoying if it won't need to touch hda anyway. Is there

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Guest section DW
On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 04:03:32PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:01:07AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5): It doesn't help. Of course it does. (But you must distinguish people. One complains about the

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Aaron Lehmann
On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 01:08:55AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: (But you must distinguish people. One complains about the probing, another about the numbering. The bios keyword tells lilo about the numbering, and it works.) Well, shouldn't lilo avoid probing if you pass bios=? Currently it

Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?

2001-07-05 Thread Wakko Warner
Is there a reason that it does this? I believe there is. It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h. Yes. I had a machine at work with both ide and scsi. ide hdd was hdc and ide cdrom was hda just to keep lilo from thinking hdc is the first bios drive which infact sda was