Your problem is a bit different from what I thought it might be. Look
at this exchange of comments on what appears to be the identical problem, related to using lilo and having debian on the slave drive.
<http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-support/2002/03/0384.html>
-- Gary Dolan Debian GNU/Linux , Kernel 2.5.10 FreeBSD 4.7 RELEASE OpenBSD 3.2Title: 2002-03: Re: Can't put lilo on slave drive...
Re: Can't put lilo on slave drive...
From: Gerard Beekmans (gerard_at_linuxfromscratch.org)
Date: Mon Mar 11 2002 - 17:20:38 EST
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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 05:18:30PM -0500, John McGinn wrote:
> What I did was, log into my LFS system, while it's slave to the RH drive,
> and tried to run the lilo app. (I figured the lilo for my RH5.2 system was
> too old. Not sure if that's true or not.) When I do that, it gives me a
> warning saying, 'Warning: /dev/hdb is not the first disk.' (Or something
It's just a warning letting you know it's not being written to the MBR of
the first disk, thus if your first disk does not have an MBR setup, your
BIOS won't be able to boot this system in it's present state (BIOS'es
generally don't look at the MBR of non-first disks).
Try to swap the harddrives now, lilo may be written properly and bootable
now.
If not, switch to Grub. Lilo is sometimes very very picky and nasty about
these MBR things, geometry changes, and so on. Grub is more versatile.
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