On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:51:18PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote: > the Seagate HDD at id 0, and the config file tells LILO to look for the > kernel and root partition on "/dev/sda1".
this is simple, just get a lilo boot: prompt and type: linux root=/dev/sdc1 which will override the root= line in lilo.conf > If I boot the server with the old Sun HDD attached, I get a message along > the lines of "can't find boot device", if I take it out again, the Seagate > drive can't boot (it gets to "LI" and hangs). What I'd like to do is make > sure that the old Sun HDD is /dev/sdc - NOT /dev/sda - in which case the > machine should boot a-ok. However, for the life of me I can't get Linux to > recognise it as anything but /dev/sda. I've tried setting it's id to 0, and > the normal Seagate boot drive to 1 (and changed the SCSI controller to boot > from "1") - but this doesn't work either - the Sun disk is still /dev/sda. > I've also told the BIOS to give the on-board controller a higher boot > priority than the PCI SCSI controller - but this doesn't change Linux-world. the linux kernel assigns the device nodes dynamically, whatever disk it notices first will get /dev/sda, its much simpler to just fix /etc/fstab and lilo.conf then try and convince the kernel otherwise. as for the LI stuff maybe you should try grub, i think its much less fragile then lilo, its also much more powerful and smarter. (you don't have to reinstall it everytime you touch the kernel files) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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