Not sure if this is appropriate for your case but have you looked at the the disk option of lilo.conf (5)?
> > --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > I have a SuperMicro P6DBU motherboard with built in SCSI. All > the drives are SCSI on the system. I just recently bought a 80G > IDE drive to use for storage. > > The problem is that after I installed the drive the system booted > up fine. I have the bootup in the bios to start with Floppy > then SCSI drives. It worked fine. > > I was adding an append for the /dev/hda in lilo and ran lilo. > When I did it gave me an warning that the drive /dev/sda was > not the first drive in the system. After rebooting the bios > said it was booting from SCSI as normal but I got the constant > 01 01 01 01 thing. > > I've tried various things like returning lilo to it's original > configuration and the bios was not modified from when It used > to boot fine. I'm thinking it's a lilo confusion problem. > > The way I got around this was to install lilo on /dev/hda with > "other=3D/dev/sda" in it (the only thing in lilo.conf.hda). And > keeping lilo on /dev/sda to boot the system. It works fine > like that. As long as I set the bios to boot from IDE primary master > instead of from SCSI. The problem with that setup is I can't > boot from CDrom unless I change the bios back to booting from SCSI. > > I'm just wanting to know if there are any lilo tricks to get it to > see /dev/sda as the first drive. Or if anyone has experience with > the SuperMicro P6DBU Board that knows of this problem. > > Thanks > > --=20 > B. L. Jilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > PGP keys on my website --> http://crowbyte.dnsalias.com/~tcrow > Linux user: 163800 | Debian Rules! | Slackware Rocks! > ----------------------------------------------------------- > > --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY > Content-Type: application/pgp-signature > Content-Disposition: inline > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE9C8EEkscAYYq6DOYRAY3rAJ0Tr3Daabf+nBPFn4AwKOwV4OEEPgCggH+0 > jezKwq6uWmu4A3XN5PJzBOA= > =syu3 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > --1LKvkjL3sHcu1TtY-- > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Shaul Karl, [EMAIL PROTECTED] e t -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
