Hello list;
I have three physical boxes:
The main cpu box - has two IDE drives an IDE CDROM and a SCSI HD.
An external scsi box with a cdrom and a cd-rw.
An external scsi box with 2 hd's in it.
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here is my setup:
(CPU Box)
hda hda1 8G b win95 (FAT32) /w98se
hdb cdrom
hdc hdc1 1G 83 /
hdc2 512M 82 swap
hdc3 2G 83 /usr/local
hdc4 6G 5 extended
hdc5 512M 83 /home
hdc6 512M 83 /var
hdc7 5G 83 /usr
sda sda1 2G b win95 (FAT32) /mnt/common
(scsi HD box)
sdb sdb1 8G b win95 (FAT32) /mnt/ext-scsi-Lower
sdc sdc1 8G b win95 (FAT32) /mnt/ext-scsi-upper
(scsi CD box)
sdd cdrom
sde cdrw
(The sizes are rounded off)
All the hardware works fine.
I just unstalled RH 7.1 from the CD's, it installed fine
using X and made a boot disk.
The trouble is that I get the dreaded "LI" when I try to boot from the hard
drive.
I have tried disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80 all the way up to sde/0x87
in /etc/lilo - no help
The weird thing is that if I power down and just remove the external box with
the two hard drives in it and boot from floppy - run lilo - it works!
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The install saw all the hard drives and fdisk let me see them.
I can mount them as well as the CD drives after booting with the boot disk.
hda = quantum bigfoot 8.4G
hdb = 32x MAx cdrom
hdc = seagate fireball 6.4G
sda = seagate ST-52160 2G
sdb = seagate SX410800N 9.1G full Ht
sdc = seagate SX410800N 9.1G full Ht
sdd = NEC 24X CDROM
sde = SAF CDRW 226
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right now I have MAIN->HD->CD->term (fails to boot)
also tried MAIN->CD->HD->term (fails to boot)
MAIN->CD->term (works fine)
I can access all the drives and write CD's under W98.
The reason for the win95(FAT32) partitions is that I want to make these two
drives as portable as possible.
I plan to move the external box between various CPU's.
This is a p2 on a Gateway NLX style MB 128M pc133.
The scsi controller is a SIIG initio INIC-940 (from w98)
I have re-run /sbin/lilo -v -v evertime that I make a change.
(note: Kudzu did not detect the difference when I moved/removed drives around)
I have also played around with device numbers.
anyone have any ideas?
thanks Mick
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"just a guy in a garage" Registered Linux User #105295
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