Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 20:30:07 +0100 (CET) | From | Martin Josefsson <> | Subject | Re: Linux booting from HD on Promise Ultra ATA 100 |
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Stephen Torri wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Martin Josefsson wrote: > > > My setup looks like this, I boot from hde > > I configured my BIOS to boot from SCSI (I have no scsi-adapter but the > > promise card reports itself as one at boottime) > > > > boot = /dev/hde3 > > delay = 50 > > message = /boot/message > > vga = extended > > read-only > > lba32 > > disk=/dev/hde > > bios=0x80 > > > The line "lba32" is for what? I have to ask this because I have never seen > it in an example of a lilo.conf file before.
it is a BIOS extension that allows you to boot of a partition thats located above cylinder 1024. I think it's called EDB or something like that.
> Also you put "disk=/dev/hde and bios=0x80" to inform lilo that there was a > disk there and its bios address is 0x80. Is this right?
yes.
> If I would follow your example then I would put: > > lba32 > disk=/dev/hdf > bios=0x82
I think that would be correct yes, and install LILO on hde (I think the promise-card only tries to boot from primary master when you have selected SCSI in BIOS. But I'm not sure.
/Martin
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