Re: tlug: Afraid to boot

[Neil Booth <NeilB@example.com>]

Hi Kei,

You and Scott are both right. It wouldn't boot by itself; even when I
unplugged the IDE drive. So I booted off a floppy, reran LILO with the
IDE unplugged, and then rebooted with the IDE plugged in. At boot, the
LILO boot code complains it can find no active partition on the IDE, and
proceeds to boot from the SCSI (which is of course what happened just
after I first installed the IDE, but I wasn't paying attention then).

So I guess I'm going to have to put my kernels on the IDE, and the boot
sector, like you suggest.

It's a shame LILO functions OK when run and it doesn't know of an IDE,
but when it knows of one it messes up. If I get really ambitious one
day, I may try and change this.

I haven't checked, but there may be a newer version than 20 too.

Neil.

Kei Furuuchi wrote:
> 
> Neil Booth writes:
>  > I have never seen that Warning before, and it slightly scares me. Is it
>  > merely bacuse there is an IDE drive there now, LILO is detecting it, and
>  > which might be the "first disk"? Or is it more sinister, and will it
>  > fail to boot?
>  >
>  > I daren't try just yet. Any advice welcome.
> 
> It seems that when IDE disk is added, lilo seems to think scsi drive
> is not bootable. It stops writing boot block unless it is ide. So I
> recommend making boot floppy that know which is  root partition.
> then change boot attribute to /dev/hda in lilo.conf and do lilo
> command like:
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/sda1
> 
> to be bootable from hard disk.
> 
> There are bios setting to set boot sequence to set scsi first and
> disable ide for some computers.
> So probably you can also disable ide first and reboot and run lilo and
> enable ide again to run lilo sucessfully. But, it is cumbersome. It is
> much easier to just set ide  bootable. Especially when you want
> to use ide for other os.
> 
> Regards,
> Kei.
> 
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