Hi! I have a machine with a large IDE-disk (hda) and a smaller, but also faster SCSI-disk (sda). So the system resides on SCSI, bulk data on IDE. So far, so good. But I can´t, for whatever reason, just boot completely from the SCSI-disk, so I installed the MBR on the IDE one.
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/sda7
There is a small /boot-partition on sda1, also.
This setup worked flawlessly since 09/2000 until today I changed a
flaky network card and needed to upgrade from kernel 2.2.18 to 2.2.19
to get the via-rhine-module in a recent version.
I installed (am I already grinding on your nerves? I know this is
rather long, but I can´t figure out how to keep it shorter and yet
include all vital information) kernel-image 2.2.19-2, although I
decided to write lilo.conf and run lilo myself, JIC it would bitch
about the SCSI/IDE-setup otherwise.
When I try to boot from the disk, all I get after the lilo-prompt is
Error 0x01
Unable to load Linux
Error 0x01
<repeat>
I googled up the following advice:
- re-recreate the map-file
- check BIOS-settings
- disable internal CPU-cache
- make conservative DRAM-settings
- make the IDE-drive known to the BIOS
- attach the IDE-drive as master, without any slave
- upgrade BIOS
- run lilo with append - pci=nobios
pci=conf1
pci=conf2
did/checked all that, didn´t help.
But best is the explanation for lilo-error 0x01:
"`Illegal command''. This shouldn't happen, but if it does, it may
indicate an attempt to access a disk which is not supported by the
BIOS."
Then why did it work flawlessly until today? I´m out of clues, here,
definitely.
Can´t run the old kernel also. I´m just that: >< short now of
crunching the whole setup and getting a SCSI-controller with BIOS so I
can (maybe?) boot directly from SCSI, but somehow that doesn´t seem
right.
So, any hints for a clueless?
cheers#tia,
&rw
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