On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Edward Moon wrote:
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->lilo and I got a message "Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk".
->
->When I rebooted the PC, lilo freezes after "LI".
->
->I've tried various options in lilo.conf (pointing to /dev/sda1,
->/dev/hda, /dev/hda1, removing the append = "mem=128M" line), but I
->can't boot the PC without using a boot floppy.
*** Edward,
Since I have the same setup as you do - IDE for backups, etc..., two
Tekram 390's - you might want to try the following:
Since the IDE has priority over SCSI, adding such a disk to your setup
will make Linux always want to boot on the IDE. Somebody mailed to this
list about this problem some time ago so that gave me a lead. What you
have to do is tell LILO to install the loader on the MBR of your IDE disk.
Change the first line in LILO - "boot=/dev/sd?" - to "boot=/dev/hda" and
leave the "root=/dev/sda1" the way it is. See my lilo.cfg :
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
keytable=/boot/fr-latin1.ktl
password=xxxx
disk=/dev/sda
BIOS=0x81
SECTORS=32
HEADS=64
CYLINDERS=1030
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-22
label=linux
root=/dev/sda1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.5-22.img
read-only
Run lilo and you'll notice that the error about sda not being on the 1st
disk has gone away.
Cheers!
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