Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > It explains that your disks are scsi disks, where there is no master/slave > distinction. > > It ist not clear however what the BIOS thinks about the order of the > devices. The adaptec also has a setup program to specify what should be the > boot device. > > When you know what the BIOS recognizes as the first, second, ... drive you > can tell that LILO by the disk section: > > DISK=/dev/sda > bios=0x80 > DISK=/dev/sdb > bios=0x81 > > This is to correct LILO's guess that may well be different from the BIOS's > one (which could be the reason for a not-working LILO.
I used the Adaptec setup to set my boot disk to 1 and I added the disk options to lilo.conf, but it still doesn't work. How do I get the right values for bios=? Mamoun -- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINE Fax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier Messiaen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 72085 LE MANS CEDEX 9 http://www-ic2.univ-lemans.fr/~alissali
