Re: weird lilo problem
On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 03:15:08AM -0400, j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> i have encountered an odd lilo problem.
>
> i have a scsi HD (linux) and an IDE HD (win2k).
>
> i configure lilo, run lilo, and it reports no errors.
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> reboot, and lilo hangs.
>
> unplug IDE drive, run lilo again, and it reports no errors.
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> plug IDE drive back in, and lilo boots linux normally. in fact, i can even mount the IDE drive and read form it.
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> so basically, i just have to unplug my ide drive each time i run lilo to keep things working.
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> in the bios i can select to boot from scsi or IDE first, which is how i switch from linux to win2k.
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> this seems like a rather odd bug, and it is frustrating because i would like to be able to boot win2k from the lilo prompt (currently i cant, because the idea drive must be disconnected when i run lilo).
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> any ideas?
Yeah, I was confused by this problem recently too. Except in my
situation I had 2 ide drives but trying to do basically the same thing
as you.
What I needed to do was put the following into my lilo.conf file:
drive=/dev/hdc
bios=0x80
I think the first one was "drive" - not 100% sure and can't check from
this computer. The bios line tells lilo to treat the 3rd ide drive
(in this case) hdc as the boot one.
hth
Mark.
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