On 04-Jun-2000 Mikkel L. Ellertson opined:
>> Been booting from hdc1 and hdd1 for over a year without a hitch.
>>
> According to the LILO docs, it is BIOS dependent. It works for some, but
> not for others. I have done it also.
I haven't looked at it. You're probably right. I can also see when people
have the CD drive on slave or secondary master that things could go bad for
succeeding drives.
>> If I understand the problem and partitioning layout, the root partition
>> was
>> located on a fireball slave, and that was mentioned as unuseable because
>> both a) it had another partition (or more) already located on it, and b)
>> the
>> only available space was located above cylinder 1280. That's where the
>> problem is. No mention was made of a /boot partition on drive 3. So, the
>> /boot directory is located in the / partition, which is above cylinder
>> 1280.
>>
> No - /boot is on the Western Digital drive. /dev/hdc2
He wrote direct and gave me the layout of the drives. The problem looks
like / being on an extended partition of hdb, which won't work. Since he
can't boot into linux (from what I gather) he also can't restore the mbr
that gets saved into the /boot partition. I suggested a couple of options,
one of which was booting with a rescue disk and mounting things to restore
the mbr. The other was to reinstall and get / onto a primary partition,
which should fix both 'Doze and linux.
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