Re: LILO hangs on hard drive boot
At 01:39 PM 10/21/99 -0500, Steve Doerr wrote:
>I've got Linux on a secondary IDE hard drive(secondary master).
>When I set BIOS boot sequence to D:A:SCSI all I get is "LI" and
>the system hangs. Any ideas? Can I spiff up that boot record
>without messing anything up, or is LILO corrupted? The system
>runs fine when I use a boot floppy.
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I had a similar problem. I have a 19G IDE primary master
and a SCSI drive. I wanted to boot from de SCSI drive
but the install warned me that if the BIOS didn't support
that properly there would be a problem. I have a BIOS
that did support that and went ahead. But I got the same
result that you did ("LI"). I booted from floppy and that
went ok, looked in "man lilo.conf" en found this:
disk=/dev/sda
<tab>bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda
<tab>bios=0x81
I put it in the top of my lilo.conf, ran lilo and
it worked! I was VERY disapointed that the install
did detect the problem BUT didn't do anything
about it!
My advice for you is, try:
disk=/dev/hdb
<tab>bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda
<tab>bios=0x81
at the top of your lilo.conf and run lilo.
Let me know if it solved your problem.
Good luck,
Onno
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