Hello all! I have an interesting setup on my PC and I'm having some problems with LILO, wondered if anyone had any bright ideas. I couldn't find a decent LILO mailing list so thought I would try here.
Conmputer setup is as follows: Three hard-drives in machine. Two identical 20GB IDE drives and a UW SCSI 4GB drive. The two 20GB IDE drives are connected to a HighPoint370a PCI controller card (which provides two IDE channels) (software IDE Raid0) They are on seperate channels. The onboard IDE interfaces on the motherboard have a DVD-ROM on the primary as master and the secondary is disabled. The highpoint card makes the two 20GB drives appear as one virtual 40GB drive. The 4GB Scsi drive (with Solaris on it) is attached to an Adaptec 2940UW scsi card. I have Redhat and Windoze on the IDE Raid0 and I am using LILO to boot between them, no problem. The drivers I am currently using for the Highpoint emulate a SCSI device so redhat sits on SDA1 etc and Windoze is on SDA5.... I recently installed Solaris8 for Intel on the 4GB SCSI drive, to do this I had to remove the Highpoint RAID card for the install as a reboot doesn't give me access to the scsi drive to boot from. If the Highpoint card isn't isntalled then I can boot into Solaris no problem, it has a boot loader in the MBR on the SCSI drive. >From Redhat I can see the SCSI drive wth Solaris as SDC (I have a Jaz drive which is SDB) I added the following to my /etc/lilo.conf file other = /dev/sdc label = Solaris and reran lilo. I get a warning message about: warning, drive 0x82 may not be accessible from BIOS. I also tried other = /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdc2 All i ever get is the Lilo prompt of: L? The PC has a BIOS which is set to boot from SCSI. The HighPoint card has a BIOS which is set to boot the IDE Raid drive (you cannot disable this) The adaptec 2940UW SCSI card that I have has the BIOS enabled and is set to boot from SCSI ID 6 (the hard-drive with Solaris in it) The scsi card has a cdr on it as well and if I have a bootable cd-rom in there then I can boot from it. The Solaris partition is set to active. No matter what I do I can't boot from that SCSI drive. If the Highpoint card is installed then I always boot from the hard-drive array attached to it unless I set the BIOS on the motherboard to boot from floppy or I have a bootable CDROM in the CDR on the SCSI bus Will the BIOS=???? option for lilo.conf make a difference if I remap the SCSI drive to be Bios=0x80? Or can I copy the MBR from the SCSI drive to a file and start booting from this or something similarly tricky? Any ideas gratefully accepted!!!! Regards Demian Dixon Core Technology RHCE _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
