Re: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
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Yes, it is when running LILO that I get the error. It leaves the machine
in an unbootable state. Installing LILO onn a floppy or on the IDE drive
made things happy, but I don't like it as I had been booting off the same
SCSI disk for over a year. It wasn't until I installed the second network
card that LILO refused to install properly on the SCSI disk.
I suspect that installing the new net card caused the BIOS to completely
re-arrange how it assigned IRQ/DMA/IO/whatever values to my hardware and
somehow caused the SCSI card to be found after the IDE controllers, when
proviously it was found first. Maybe. Something like that, anyway.
noah
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, John Gilger wrote:
> Did you run lilo after you installed the new kernal?
>
> John
>
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> From: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@morgul.net>
> To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 7:48 PM
> Subject: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
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> > Can anybody shed some light on the error message above? I get it whenever
> > I run LILO now, and the system won't boot from the hard drive. The only
> > change to this system was a new network card (there are now 2) and the new
> > kernel. The kernel works fine, as I have installed LILO on a floppy and
> > can boot with no trouble.
> >
> > Here are some details:
> > SCSI controller ID is 7
> > sda SCSI id 0
> > all other SCSI disks disabled as part of my debugging
> >
> > hda is an IDE HD, no bootable partitions
> > hdb is an IDE CDROM
> >
> > so...what is the "first disk"? The system used to boot from /dev/sda just
> > fine, and the problem really seems to have something to do with the second
> > network card I added.
> >
> > TIA for the help.
> > noah
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