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Re: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk



"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote:
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> Can anybody shed some light on the error message above?  I get it whenever
> I run LILO now, and the system won't boot from the hard drive.  The only
> change to this system was a new network card (there are now 2) and the new
> kernel.  The kernel works fine, as I have installed LILO on a floppy and
> can boot with no trouble.
> 
> Here are some details:
> SCSI controller ID is 7
> sda SCSI id 0
> all other SCSI disks disabled as part of my debugging
> 
> hda is an IDE HD, no bootable partitions
> hdb is an IDE CDROM
> 
> so...what is the "first disk"?  The system used to boot from /dev/sda just
> fine, and the problem really seems to have something to do with the second
> network card I added.
> 
> TIA for the help.
> noah

/dev/hda is the first disk.  to boot off of /dev/sda you need to
probably reconfigure your BIOS or something to do it, or install LILO to
the MBR on /dev/hda.

i had a similar configuration on a BP6, boot drive was SCSI but i had
IDE and LILO gave the same message, but i had the bios configured to
boot from the scsi so there was no trouble.

nate

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