Re: strangeness...

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 10 Jun 1998 08:24:06 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Russell Berry wrote:

> this is basically just curiosity, I'm not real worried about it because I'm
> about to change out all my disk drives anyway, but this just started happening
>
> root@wintermute:/root# lilo
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible

LILO says this for drives > 0x81, since some
BIOSes can only access 2 drives.
If you have a 'modern' BIOS, you can just
ignore this warning.

I've had this warning all the time when I
booted off of my SCSI disk and had told the
BIOS that there were no 2 IDE disks :)

Rik.
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