On Sun, May 10, 1998 at 11:52:45AM -0400, Randy Edwards wrote: > Then I took the tactic of one huge, multi-gigabyte partition. LILO refused to > install onto that. > > There is one variable here that I haven't mentioned. This system (SCSI using > an Adaptec 2920 controller) had a SCSI hard drive as SCSI ID #6, a ZIP drive as > SCSI ID #5, and a SCSI CD-ROM as SCSI ID #4. In my mind, Linux should have seen > the hard drive as /dev/sda, correct? In this case, Linux kept putting the ZIP > drive as /dev/sda and the hard drive as /dev/sdb. Is this the source of my > problems? If so, how can one cure that (the Zip drive only allows itself to be > set as SCSI ID #5 or #6)? The Adaptec BIOS will try to boot (i.e. load lilo) from the lowest id SCSI disk it finds. Try to set your hard drive to id #0. Also put linear in /etc/lilo.conf Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
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