On Thu, Jan 14, 1999 at 05:12:46PM +0000, Mamoun Alissali wrote: > Nils Rennebarth wrote: > > 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. I only gave an example assuming you would read the lilo doc :-) Anyway, bios=0x80 means the bios thinks this is the first disk, so DISK=/dev/sda bios=0x81 DISK=/dev/sdb bios=0x80 should work better. 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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