On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 22:03, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Just to clarify: the original 40GB drive was (and still is) hda, and > that's what you're still trying to boot off of? Yes. > > Something tells me, that the adapter is confusing the BIOS about > where to boot from. Have you looked in the PCs BIOS (or the Promise > BIOS, if possible) to see if the Promise is hijacking something? I can't get into the Promise BIOS. Everything on the PCs BIOS looks good. I had another fellow geek walk through it with me just to make sure I wasn't overlooking the obvious. > Solving problems the hard way: > > 1. Back out your changes, and see if you can boot. Yes. > 2. Then, if that works, add a 120GB HDD as hdc and reboot. Yes. > 3. Then, if that works, add the Promise adapter (no HDD!!) and boot. This is where the problem happens. I'm thinking I need to add a root= something parameter to lilo, but I'm not clear on exactly what that would be. When all of the HDDs are connected, /dev/hda (my primary) gets renamed to /dev/hdi. -- steve ___________________________________________________ | | | There's a difference between being grumpy and | | hating every little fucker in existence. | | | | http://monticello.biz : technology that works | | http://exitwound.org : hard to find | | http://buckowensfan.com : he's the man | ---------------------------------------------------
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