I have a SuperMicro P6DBU motherboard with built in SCSI. All the drives are SCSI on the system. I just recently bought a 80G IDE drive to use for storage. The problem is that after I installed the drive the system booted up fine. I have the bootup in the bios to start with Floppy then SCSI drives. It worked fine. I was adding an append for the /dev/hda in lilo and ran lilo. When I did it gave me an warning that the drive /dev/sda was not the first drive in the system. After rebooting the bios said it was booting from SCSI as normal but I got the constant 01 01 01 01 thing. I've tried various things like returning lilo to it's original configuration and the bios was not modified from when It used to boot fine. I'm thinking it's a lilo confusion problem. The way I got around this was to install lilo on /dev/hda with "other=/dev/sda" in it (the only thing in lilo.conf.hda). And keeping lilo on /dev/sda to boot the system. It works fine like that. As long as I set the bios to boot from IDE primary master instead of from SCSI. The problem with that setup is I can't boot from CDrom unless I change the bios back to booting from SCSI. I'm just wanting to know if there are any lilo tricks to get it to see /dev/sda as the first drive. Or if anyone has experience with the SuperMicro P6DBU Board that knows of this problem. Thanks -- B. L. Jilek <bljilek@yahoo.com> PGP keys on my website --> http://crowbyte.dnsalias.com/~tcrow Linux user: 163800 | Debian Rules! | Slackware Rocks! -----------------------------------------------------------
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