Re: LILO in a mixed IDE/SCSI system

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Mon, 03 Aug 1998 21:30:29 +1000

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On Mon, 03 Aug 1998 13:13:24 METDST,
Heinz Mauelshagen <mauelsha@ez-darmstadt.telekom.de> wrote:
>In a mixed IDE/SCSI configuration with SCSI configured BIOS boot preference
>using /dev/sda as the boot disk (LILO in MBR),
>/sbin/lilo complains with a warning, that boot is _not_ on the first disk
>(one IDE exists as /dev/hda).
>
>No error is reported by lilo in this case, but system is unable
>to boot afterwards stoping at after the letters "LI"!

Add these lines to the start of /etc/lilo.conf, it tells LILO that you
are booting from /dev/sda. Perhaps this should be in the FAQ.

disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80

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