Re: RH6 && LILO && SCSI HDD.

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Fri, 30 Jul 1999 20:11:50 +1000

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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