Re: LINUX NEED SUPPORT FROM MS?!: booting from hdb with lilo
after adding "bios=0x80" in lilo.conf , lilo is fine.
Thanks!
--- Peter J Ross <pjr@britishlibrary.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 Feb 2005 10:18, j smith wrote:
>
> > LILO version 22.2, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner
> > Almesberger
>
> Unfortunately, older versions of lilo can have
> trouble in the kind of
> situation you describe.
>
> Take a look at the man page. (I'm quoting here from
> the latest Debian
> unstable version.)
>
> disk=<device-name>
> Defines non-standard parameters for the
> specified disk. See
> section "Disk geometry" of user.tex for
> details. For versions
> of LILO prior to 22.5, the `bios=' parameter is
> quite useful for
> specifying how the BIOS has assigned device
> codes to your disks.
> For example,
>
> disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x80
> disk=/dev/hda
> bios=0x81
> disk=/dev/sdb
> inaccessible
>
> would say that your SCSI disk is the first
> BIOS disk (0x80),
> that your (primary master) IDE disk is the
> second BIOS disk
> (0x81), and that your second SCSI disk (perhaps
> a USB device)
> receives no device code, and is therefore
> inaccessible at boot
> time.
>
> NOTE: Use of the 'bios=' option is largely
> obsolete beginning
> with LILO version 22.5, as the boot loader now
> identifies disks
> by 32-bit Volume-ID, and defers BIOS device
> code determination
> until boot time.
>
> I'm not sure how exactly this applies to your
> situation because I
> don't know what your BIOS settings are, but the
> documentation and a
> Google search for "bios=0x80" ought to point towards
> a solution.
>
> You could try physically swapping the disks, of
> course.
>
> Btw, loadlin.exe isn't a Microsoft product. ;-)
>
> --
> PJR :-)
>
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