Re: moving boot drive around and lilo

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003 at 23:06 GMT, james terris penned:
> 
> That installs lilo! yay!
> Of course now I have a new problem.
> When I reboot I get:
> 
> LI
> 
> So I changed lilo.conf from:
> disk=/dev/hde
> bios=0x80
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/hde1
> 
> to:
> #disk=/dev/hde
> #bios=0x80
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/hde1
> 
> and now I get:
> LILO 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 
> 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 
> 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01 01
> 
> until I reboot it.
> 
> Any ideas what could be causing either of those problems?
> 
> thx,
> james
> 
> 

You moved the drive from /dev/hda to /dev/hde , meaning that the
physical location of the disk on your IDE chain has changed, right?

So, um, why boot=/dev/hda rather than boot=/dev/hde?

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