LILO and IDE primary slave drives

[sdoerr <sdoerr@qni.com>]

>From what I can tell from the LILO documentation, LILO can't boot from
the slave drive on the primary IDE controller.  Is this correct?

I don't want to try the linear option because I may need to boot from a
floppy in the future.  Specifying

disk = /dev/hdb
   bios = 0x81

did not make the HD bootable.

boot.b, vmlinuz, and everything else is properly located in /boot on
hdb1

my bios supports a D drive boot, and the LI error says it's geometry or
you haven't written a new boot.b and I've tried both.

Any input greatly appreciated!

Thanks,
Steve