On Friday 20 April 2001 11:40, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote: > I have problems booting my system from new HD. > > I've got: > - ABIT KT7 > - Seagate connected to first channel (as /dev/hda) > - CD-ROM as /dev/hdc > - new disk (DTLA 307030) connected to HPT370 as /dev/hde > > I want to boot my system form /dev/hde, ( I want to be able to take > /dev/hda away sometimes, and still be able to boot my system, of course > after rerunning lilo). > > If new disk is the only one being seen by BIOS ( Seagate is disabled in > bios setup) it works fine - new disk is 0x80 in BIOS. > On the other hand when 2 disk are available, LILO stops after "LI". > Of course I rerun lilo on every change. I guess it tries to access not the > right drive. > What will be the bios drive number of my new disk, when both are turned on > ? 0x81 ?
0x81 sounds reasonable, but really it could be anything. The only thing to do is to try telling LILO to use 0x81 and see if that makes it boot! -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
