On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:15:08AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have encountered an odd lilo problem. > > i have a scsi HD (linux) and an IDE HD (win2k). > > i configure lilo, run lilo, and it reports no errors. > > reboot, and lilo hangs. > > unplug IDE drive, run lilo again, and it reports no errors. > > plug IDE drive back in, and lilo boots linux normally. in fact, i can even > mount the IDE drive and read form it. > > so basically, i just have to unplug my ide drive each time i run lilo to keep > things working. > > in the bios i can select to boot from scsi or IDE first, which is how i > switch from linux to win2k. > > this seems like a rather odd bug, and it is frustrating because i would like > to be able to boot win2k from the lilo prompt (currently i cant, because the > idea drive must be disconnected when i run lilo). > > any ideas?
Yeah, I was confused by this problem recently too. Except in my situation I had 2 ide drives but trying to do basically the same thing as you. What I needed to do was put the following into my lilo.conf file: drive=/dev/hdc bios=0x80 I think the first one was "drive" - not 100% sure and can't check from this computer. The bios line tells lilo to treat the 3rd ide drive (in this case) hdc as the boot one. hth Mark.
