Re: New drive--->lilo warning
On Thu, Apr 16, 1998 at 11:01:34AM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote:
>
> > > I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up
> > > to 4). I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it
> > > possible to boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try,
> > > it comes up with:
> > >
Well, it depends on your bios. I boot sometimes from hdc, which is on
my second controller. For this I have to mount the drive (which
has a complete linux system) under /mnt, because I have
image=/mnt/vmlinuz
in my lilo.conf. This tells linux to use this kernel. However, I had
to upgrade my bios, because the old version could not access
the second drive at boot time. LILO did hang when trying so.
I don´t have access to the original mail, though. Do you have
other=/dev/hdc
in your lilo.conf, or what?
Although your computer my support fourd drives in general, it may not
be able to access them all at boot time. Try upgrading your flash bios
then...
ß
> > > # lilo
> > > Added linux *
> > > Added dos
> > > ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc
> > > ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide
> > > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> > > ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc
> > > ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide
> > > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
> > > Added dad
> > >
> > > I don't know whether to believe its explanation. I suspect something
> > > else might be wrong. Any ideas?
> >
> > The answer comes straight out of the LILO manual (/usr/doc/lilo/manual*)
> >
> > ...snip...
> >
> > In a nutshell, since your BIOS supports 4 drives, ignore the warnings.
>
> I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system
> disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it
> was bootable.
>
> So what's wrong? On my father's computer the disk was disk C: where as
> now it is /dev/hdc (that is, disk E: in dos-speak). Could this change
> affect anything?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mark.
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