I think that happens cause of the auto remapping of your drives. I think hdc becomes hdb when you pull hdb out. So modifying lilo.conf and replacing hdc with hdb, running lilo afterwards, removing hdb and rebooting should solve it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Watts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 12:19 PM Subject: [expert] Lilo with multiple hard drives... > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > I have a system with 3 harddrives in it (hda = Windows, hdb = spare (part XFS, > part FAT32) and hdc = Linux (resierfs). > I installed Windows first, followed by 9.0 on hdc, and chose to install lilo > to hda's boot sector. > This has been working just fine since I installed. > I've come to a point where I'm moving hdb out of the system... > Whenever I remove it, I get the ubiquitos LI LI LI LI LI across the screen, > indicating that lilo is toast. Putting the drive back makes everything work > as before. > > 2 questions: > > 1) Should lilo really be doing this, bearing in mind that hdb isnt mentioned > in lilo.conf (It has an old 8.2 install I havent removed yet on it, but I'd > have to make a boot disk to boot from it). > > 2) If I re-reun lilo (from a rescue cd and chrooting stuff) without changing > lilo.conf, will that fix the LI LI LI issue? > > Cheers, > > Mark. > > - -- > Mark Watts > Systems Engineer > QinetiQ TIM > St Andrews Road, Malvern > GPG Public Key available on request. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+aIA5Bn4EFUVUIO0RAhuvAKCzIzCZDqFlr6+RWzdSEmrpglnB8QCgxetA > gfpHOl0qRleNXs2VLEiSQcY= > =wfFV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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