On 8/3/06, Statux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
So, I guess from here, I too will ask my own question stemming from this one: How do I get a bootloader (lilo preferably for me) to boot a device which may not always be in the same place like a SCSI-ish disk?
Pay attention to BIOS drive mappings. Boot loaders like grub work based on the BIOS's idea of bootable devices. I haven't used lilo in a few years, but grub references BIOS disks as hd0, hd1, .... So FEX if you have 2 SATA drives connected to SATA ports #1 and #2, you can typically configure the BIOS to boot #1 (hd0 in grub) first, then #2 (hd1). If you reverse the boot order of the drives in the BIOS, then hd0 in grub will be #2, and hd1 will be #1. If you have a BIOS that will boot from a USB hard drive, and configure the BIOS to boot from that first, then hd0 in grub will refer to the USB drive. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
