Re: setting up scsi drives and lilo

[jwt@example.com (Jim Tittsler)]

In article <199610030508.OAA00282@example.com>,
schweiz@example.com (Jim Schweizer) wrote:
>Do I boot the backup Linux on C: to install lilo since the Linux on
>/dev/sda1 doesn't recognize (can't see) the IDE drive (I can manually mount
>it to /mnt if I need it temporarily.) or do I mount the IDE drive and
>install lilo from /dev/sda1 (where I want the root partition to go.)

Since your BIOS does not know about your SCSI hard disk, you will
want to install LILO to *boot* (load the kernel from) your IDE
drive.  You can specify the *root* device as being on /dev/sda1
if you wish (since the kernel does know how to talk to your SCSI
devices).


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