On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 12:03:40PM -0600, Harrison, Shawn wrote: > <ext> > /dev/sda1 <== New SCSI Disk, Linux filesystem, bootable > /dev/hda1 <== Old 9GB Disk, hda1 currently holds old copy of filesystem. > /dev/hda2 <== Windoze partition on old disk, bootable. > > I included my lilo.conf below. I'm sure that I'm either doing something > dumb, or just not considering an obvious fact. Any help would be > appreciated. > </ext> What is the device, the BIOS boots from? Is Lilo on the MBR of this device? You need to tell lilo how the BIOS numbers the drives: disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80 # if BIOS boots from IDE disk=/dev/sda bios=0x81 # Or disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 # if BIOS boots from SCSI disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81 # See /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz, Section "Specifying the geometry" for details 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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