On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Eric Wood wrote:
> Bert,
> You have a mixed hard drive environment. LILO get confusxzeded as to which
> root partition to write to.
> Look at my LILO.conf:
>
> disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x80
> disk=/dev/hda
> bios=0x81
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux
> message=/boot/message
> linear
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
> label=linux
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16-22.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/sda6
>
>
> The first four lines tells lilo which drive is which. If your booting IDE
> first then swap the two addresses to:
>
> disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x81
> disk=/dev/hda
> bios=0x80
> boot=/dev/sda
> .......etc...
> ......etc..
>
> The Multi-OS boot HOWTO had this little secret in it! I don't think RH adds
> these "safety" lines to lilo.conf but maybe they should.
> -eric wood
>
>
>
If you boot IDE, wouldn't the SCSI drive be 0x82, and not 0x81? If I
remember correctly, the BIOS will map both IDE drives first, and then
the SCSI drive if it is set to boot IDE. Also, if the system is set to
boot IDE, shouldn't it be boot=/dev/hda, and not /dev/sda? In any case,
Windows 9x will be upset if you boot SCSI first, because it wants to be
on BIOS device 0x80. (You can use LILO to remap the drives, and make it
work...)
Mikkel
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