Messages in this thread | | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: LILO in a mixed IDE/SCSI system | Date | Mon, 03 Aug 1998 21:30:29 +1000 |
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On Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:13:24 METDST, Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelsha@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de> wrote: >In a mixed IDE/SCSI configuration with SCSI configured BIOS boot preference >using /dev/sda as the boot disk (LILO in MBR), >/sbin/lilo complains with a warning, that boot is _not_ on the first disk >(one IDE exists as /dev/hda). > >No error is reported by lilo in this case, but system is unable >to boot afterwards stoping at after the letters "LI"!
Add these lines to the start of /etc/lilo.conf, it tells LILO that you are booting from /dev/sda. Perhaps this should be in the FAQ.
disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80
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