My experiences with this indicate that LILO CANNOT configure itself on any except the first logical drive. I didn't experiment with it, but since removeable media (jaz drive) can be /dev/sda that made my hard drive /dev/sdb. When I tried to make lilo insert itself under these conditions I got exactly the response you have described. I believe this is a bug in LILO, but I haven't tried to confirm it.
Chris... > I tried switching from a IDE to a SCSI disk. I copied everything > (except proc) to the new disk using tar, edited the new fstab and > lilo.conf, and typed 'lilo -r /mnt'. Here's what lilo said: > > ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc > ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide > Warning: /dev/sda7 is not on the first disk > ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc > ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible > ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc > ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible > ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc > ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible > ide: probable bad entry for /dev/hdc > ide: to fix it, run: /usr/src/linux/scripts/MAKEDEV.ide > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible > Added Linux * > > But all I have is hda, hdb and sda! I tried remaking the > /dev/hd* (on the new drive) and even tried delete them. > > Since Lilo only said "warning", I tried booting from the > new drive anyway, but all I got to see was: > LI 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 > 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 > 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 > ... > This goes on and on until I press reset. :-( > I have no idea what's going on. Can anyone help me please? > > Thanks so much in advance! > Andy. > ____________________________________________________________________ > Andy Spiegl, University of Technology, Muenchen, Germany > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > URL: http://www.appl-math.tu-muenchen.de/~spiegl PGP > fingerprint: B8 48 24 7B DB 96 6F 1C D9 6D 8E 6C DB C2 E7 E9 > o _ _ _ > --------- __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_) > ------- _`\<,_ _`\<,_ _>(_) (_)/<_ \_| \ _|/' \/ > ------ (_)/ (_) (_)/ (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)' _\o_ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" > to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .