Re: Strange boot up problem.
Scott Henson wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 18:34, B. L. Jilek wrote:
>
>> I have a SuperMicro P6DBU motherboard with built in
>> SCSI. All the drives are SCSI on the system. I just
>> recently bought a 80G IDE drive to use for storage.
>>
>> The problem is that after I installed the drive the
>> system booted up fine. I have the bootup in the bios
>> to start with Floppy then SCSI drives. It worked fine.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> I was adding an append for the /dev/hda in lilo and ran
>> lilo. When I did it gave me an warning that the drive
>> /dev/sda was not the first drive in the system. After
>> rebooting the bios said it was booting from SCSI as
>> normal but I got the constant 01 01 01 01 thing.
>>
>> I've tried various things like returning lilo to it's
>> original configuration and the bios was not modified
>> from when It used to boot fine. I'm thinking it's a
>> lilo confusion problem.
>>
>> The way I got around this was to install lilo on
>> /dev/hda with "other=/dev/sda" in it (the only thing in
>> lilo.conf.hda). And keeping lilo on /dev/sda to boot
>> the system. It works fine like that. As long as I set
>> the bios to boot from IDE primary master instead of
>> from SCSI. The problem with that setup is I can't boot
>> from CDrom unless I change the bios back to booting
>> from SCSI.
>>
>> I'm just wanting to know if there are any lilo tricks
>> to get it to see /dev/sda as the first drive. Or if
>> anyone has experience with the SuperMicro P6DBU Board
>> that knows of this problem.
>>
>
>
> Try grub, you wont have this type of problem.
>
I too had a problem like this with lilo (except I installed
a SCSI drive with an IDE drive already on the system and
then made a fresh install of debian on the SCSI hd). I then
installed grub and no longer have this problem :)
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