On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Aaron Prohaska wrote:
> Can someone give me some advice on how to install a IDE hard drive in a
> box where I already have two SCSI drives? I have added the IDE drive to
> the machine and have it setup as the master IDE and the CDROM as the
> slave IDE device.
>
> When I boot, linux companies about the hard drive not being the right
> file system type like ext2. I am wondering if the its trying to boot
> from the master IDE device instead of from the first SCSI device like it
> should.
>
If you have your BIOS set to boot off the SCSI drives, (It sounds
like you do.), remove the IDE drive, boot to Linux, and add the following
lines to your /etc/lilo.conf file.
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
disk=/dev/sdb
bios=0x81
Run LILO, and then all should be fine when you re-install the IDE drive.
Mikkel
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