Re: tlug: Afraid to boot

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Neil Booth wrote:

> I bought and installed a new IDE drive today - my first one. My Linux
> system is on a SCSI drive, and I'm just playing around with the IDE at
> the moment; partitioning and bad sector checking etc.
> 
> Now when I ran lilo on my main drive, the output was:-
> 
> [root /mnt]$/sbin/lilo
> Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
> Added linux *
> Added linux_Modules
> Added linux_NoModules
> Added linux_35
> Added linux_34
> [root /mnt]$
> 
> 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.

Let me see /etc/lilo.conf - you're not telling LILO to install into
/dev/sda (master boot record on /dev/sda ?)  You want to install it on the
MBR of the 'first disk', in this case /dev/hda - IDE is always 'before'
SCSI on PCs... at least on all systems I've ever seen.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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