Ron Golan wrote:
>
> Well, I just reinstalled everything and recompiled the kernel as before.
> The only thing I did differently was to shutdown, and to *remove* the IDE
> drive before compiling and running /sbin/lilo. This time I didn't get the
> warning regarding sda not being the first disk.
>
> It seems that when an IDE drive is connected, even though not mounted Linux
> forces it to be the first disk. I guess this is why they say not to mix
> SCSI and IDE. It doesn't seem like it would be a problem if you wanted the
> IDE to be the first disk. By the way, the root partition (sda1) is only 100
> cylinders, so this had nothing to do with the problem.
Very interesting. I recently had a similar problem when I installed a
9.1 GB drive. I had an old 1 GB EIDE drive in the machine, and even
though I told my system BIOS to boot from SCSI, and had DISABLED the
EIDE drive there, LILO tried to install itself on the MBR of /dev/hda1.
I had to physically disconnect the drive to get LILO to find the correct
MBR.
This might just be a problem with the Redhat installer, as I suspect it
would work if one manually specified the correct partition to
/etc/lilo.conf .
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