Hi
Noam Bloom wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
[snip]
>
> So far so good. However, a little while ago I made some changes to the
> order of the disks and now the (Linux) hardisk is on /dev/hdc1, and I
> don't get the LILO prompt. I created a boot floppy using rawrite, booted
[snip]
>From the lilo docs (which are very high quality, and recommended to
anybody wishing to have good understanding of the boot process):
"The most common BIOS restrictions that affect LILO are the limitation to
two hard disks and the inability to access more than 1024 cylinders per
disk. LILO can detect both conditions, but in order to work around the
underlying problems, manual intervention is necessary.
The drive limit does not exist in every BIOS. Some modern motherboards and
disk controllers are equipped with a BIOS that supports more (typically
four) disk drives. When attempting to access the third, fourth, etc. drive,
LILO prints a warning message but continues. Unless the BIOS really
supports more than two drives, the system will _not_ be able to boot in
that case."
Read the docs for a solution. One possible will be to put /boot on one
of the first two disks.
BTW, when you booted off floppy, you souldn't have changed the conf file -
lilo -r /mnt (or wherever you mounted your real root filesystem)
should work (again, read the docs. This is even in the short manpage).
Hope this helps,
didi
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