Flippie
On Fri, 30 Jul 1999, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 1999 19:35:11 +1000,
> Mofeed Shahin <shahin@labf.org> wrote:
> >I have in my machine 2 ide drives and 1 Ultra2 scsi drive. I would like to
> >install linux on the ultra2 scsi drive.
> >Booting with the default kernel works fine, but when I tried using the new
> >kernel it boots up and stops at "LI".
>
> Assuming your motherboard has an option to boot from SCSI before IDE.
>
> * Set the M/B to boot SCSI before IDE.
> * Put your / partition on SCSI ID 0.
> * Add these lines to /etc/lilo.conf
>
> boot=/dev/sda
> disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x80
>
> plus any other config lines you need.
>
> bios=0x80 tells LILO "/dev/sda is the boot disk, ignore what the BIOS
> says". Without that, LILO tends to assume that the first IDE drive is
> the boot disk, with nasty results.
>
> Works for me.
>
>
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