The boot should be /dev/sda. The LI is a symptom of a geometry mismatch that adding "linear" to lilo.conf usually fixes.
The message about the disk not being the first disk is just a warning as some BIOSes don't provide support for booting from other than the first disk. Tony On Friday, October 23, 1998 8:06 PM, steven [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Howdy Folks! > > I'm having a small problem configuring lilo and I'm hoping someone > can > help. > > I have a Pentium 133 running slink with kernel 2.0.35. > I have a SCSI bootdisk and I want to make my IDE drive my root drive. > > ie.. boot=/dev/sda3 > root=/dev/hda2 > > I wish to boot the SCSI drive because it contains a windoze partition > I > need to boot (sometimes). I've recently aquired a 6 gig IDE drive > and > I've copied the linux over to it. I'd like to continue booting the > SCSI > drive, but have something pointing to my IDE drive for Linux. At > this > point I can boot either partition using loadlin. If I boot the SCSI > drive > as root, I can use lilo to fix the MBR to boot linux off that drive. > > This is not desirable because the partition is too small. However, if > I > boot the IDE drive as root and attempt to use lilo I get the error > message > listed below. > > here is my lilo.conf file: > boot=/dev/sda3 > root=/dev/hda2 > install=/boot/boot.b > append="mem=80M" > map=/boot/map > vga=normal > delay=20 > image=/bzImage.2.0.35 > lable=Linux > read-only > image=/vmlinuz > lable=OldLinux > read-only > > when I run lilo, I get the following error: > > Warning: /dev/sda3 is not on the first disk > scsi0: Adopting Geometry 128/32 from the Partition Table > Added Linux * > Added OldLinux > > Then if I'm silly enough to attempt the boot the system it freezes > after > LI. > > Does anyone have suggestions as to what I can do to fix this problem? > As I > said, right now I'm booting off the debian CD using loadlin and an > older > kernel. I would like to automate the process and use my kernel. > > Thanks for your help! > > Steven > > ps. I'm not sure of what other information you may need. So if You > need > something else to solve this problem, let me know. > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] > < > /dev/null >
