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



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

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