Messages in this thread |  | | | From | flippie <> | | Subject | Re: RH6 && LILO && SCSI HDD. | | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 1999 12:34:07 +0200 |
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Try the linear option in lilo. It worked for me!
Flippie
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Keith Owens wrote: > On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 19:35:11 +1000, > Mofeed Shahin <shahin@labf.org> wrote: > >I have in my machine 2 ide drives and 1 Ultra2 scsi drive. I would like to > >install linux on the ultra2 scsi drive. > >Booting with the default kernel works fine, but when I tried using the new > >kernel it boots up and stops at "LI". > > Assuming your motherboard has an option to boot from SCSI before IDE. > > * Set the M/B to boot SCSI before IDE. > * Put your / partition on SCSI ID 0. > * Add these lines to /etc/lilo.conf > > boot=/dev/sda > disk=/dev/sda > bios=0x80 > > plus any other config lines you need. > > bios=0x80 tells LILO "/dev/sda is the boot disk, ignore what the BIOS > says". Without that, LILO tends to assume that the first IDE drive is > the boot disk, with nasty results. > > Works for me. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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