Re: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
It could be that the BIOS "reconfigured" itself to see the IDE disk. I
have an old Micron that has an IDE and SCSI, and at one point I
"disabled" the IDE hard disk in the system BIOS, so it didn't get
scanned/seen at boot and the system went to the SCSI device as the
primary drive. The disk was seen OK under Linux, because it has drivers
that probe the IDE bus (that don't use the BIOS).
"Noah L. Meyerhans" wrote:
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> Yes, it is when running LILO that I get the error. It leaves the machine
> in an unbootable state. Installing LILO onn a floppy or on the IDE drive
> made things happy, but I don't like it as I had been booting off the same
> SCSI disk for over a year. It wasn't until I installed the second network
> card that LILO refused to install properly on the SCSI disk.
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> I suspect that installing the new net card caused the BIOS to completely
> re-arrange how it assigned IRQ/DMA/IO/whatever values to my hardware and
> somehow caused the SCSI card to be found after the IDE controllers, when
> proviously it was found first. Maybe. Something like that, anyway.
>
> noah
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> On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, John Gilger wrote:
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> > Did you run lilo after you installed the new kernal?
> >
> > John
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Noah L. Meyerhans" <frodo@morgul.net>
> > To: "Debian User List" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2000 7:48 PM
> > Subject: LILO: Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
> >
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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
> > >
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