Re: LILO hangs on hard drive boot
:-> "Onno" == Onno <ebbin200@tech.nhl.nl> writes:
> 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.
> 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.
If the drive that Steve wants to use is the master on the secondary controller
then he should write
disk=/dev/hdc
bios=0x80
(etc....)
Pf
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