Re: Problem with disk order at boot time

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 1 Mar 1999 20:06:03 +0000 (GMT)

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> It's a problem of the bios/lilo and linux/lilo not quite
> agreeing on the disk drive order.

Thats why lilo has a disk option

I have a similar set up here. To boot of scsi disk I have the IDE disk
removed from the CMOS settings, but Linux still finds it (neat solution)

However lilo thinks bios drive 0 is /dev/hda ... so in lilo.conf

disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
solves that

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