Re: Lilo problem

[Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>]

On Friday 20 April 2001 11:40, Przemyslaw Wegrzyn wrote:
> I have problems booting my system from new HD.
>
> I've got:
> 	- ABIT KT7
> 	- Seagate connected to first channel (as /dev/hda)
> 	- CD-ROM as /dev/hdc
> 	- new disk (DTLA 307030) connected to HPT370 as /dev/hde
>
> I want to boot my system form /dev/hde, ( I want to be able to take
> /dev/hda away sometimes, and still be able to boot my system, of course
> after rerunning lilo).
>
> If new disk is the only one being seen by BIOS ( Seagate is disabled in
> bios setup) it works fine - new disk is 0x80 in BIOS.
> On the other hand when 2 disk are available, LILO stops after "LI".
> Of course I rerun lilo on every change. I guess it tries to access not the
> right drive.
> What will be the bios drive number of my new disk, when both are turned on
> ? 0x81 ?

0x81 sounds reasonable, but really it could be anything.  The only thing to 
do is to try telling LILO to use 0x81 and see if that makes it boot!

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