Are the ATA66 controllers connected to anything? If not, is the controller disabled in CMOS (the hde and hdf correspond to the 3rd and 4th primary controller). Of course, disabling the controller in CMOS might cause nothing to boot as your drives might change from hde/hdf to hdc/hdd, so you might want to proceed cautiously.
Joeb -------Original Message------- From: Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 03/11/03 09:14 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Re: [expert] Lilo conf lines > > On Tuesday 11 Mar 2003 1:02 pm, Joe Braddock wrote: Hi, Joe > I'm not sure if this is the case or not, but might this problem be due to > how your drives are partitioned as in primary vs extended partitions? > Could it be that if your OS, doesn't matter which is actually in an > extended partition, that LILO need to mount the primary partition > containing it to boot? No, windows is on hde1, a primary, and Mandrake 9 is on hdf1, also a primary. > I'm not a LILO guru, so I could be totally wrong. > I do know that I've mounted extended partitions (usually when installing > Linux in a dual boot environment) and have come up with some pretty strange > mappings. One other thought. This isn't a large harddrive that has had a > bootmanager installed to override the bios settings on the computer is it? No - the drives are 19GB and 16GB respectively - no need for anything exotic. > I know that a lot of drives over 32GB have special boot loaders (regardless > of the OS) to handle booting. Linux doesn't actually need it (Windows > does, sometimes), but does LILO respect it if it is there? > The only thing odd about the setup is this having 2 ATA100 connectors and 2 ATA66 connectors. Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 >
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
