Re: LILO's now working(thanks!), BUT...

[Mamoun Alissali <alissali@lium.univ-lemans.fr>]

Nils Rennebarth wrote:
> 
> It explains that your disks are scsi disks, where there is no master/slave
> distinction.
> 
> It ist not clear however what the BIOS thinks about the order of the
> devices. The adaptec also has a setup program to specify what should be the
> boot device.
> 
> When you know what the BIOS recognizes as the first, second, ... drive you
> can tell that LILO by the disk section:
> 
> DISK=/dev/sda
>   bios=0x80
> DISK=/dev/sdb
>   bios=0x81
> 
> This is to correct LILO's guess that may well be different from the BIOS's
> one (which could be the reason for a not-working LILO.

  I used the Adaptec setup to set my boot disk to 1 and I added the disk
options
to lilo.conf, but it still doesn't work.

  How do I get the right values for bios=? 

  Mamoun
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