Re: LILO bug?

[Marty <martyb@ix.netcom.com>]

Alvin Oga wrote:
> hi ya marty
>
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Marty wrote:
>
> > Alvin Oga wrote:
>
> ... 
> > >> Warning: /dev/hda is not on the first disk
> > > 
> > > if yoou can boot from /dev/hda ... lilo is working
> > > 	- pull out the scsi disk to make sure you are booting off /dev/hda
> >
> > This requires the user to to be physically present, power down, open the
> > case and modify the system hardware.  It's unnecessary and may not be possible.
>
> no it does not ...
>
> - you can simulate a missing disk ( at least the missing MBR )
>   to see if it boots the other disk
>
> 	dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/hda bs=448 count=1

This doesn't address the problem.  Again, the only workaround I know about
is removing the SCSI (or "first disk") to make LILO work correctly.  That
requires the steps I outlined.  Even if there is a better workaround, it
still seems like a bug to put the MBR on the wrong disk.

> - if it doesn't boot... you never had raid properly configured anyway

I've never used raid, so I think you are confused about my problem.