Well, I've been having a really good time playing with LILO and GRUB and
I've gotten *really* good at smacking ESC because I'm tired of watching the
memory count for the umpteenth time during a reboot. Here's a summary of my
boot adventures:
Box: 3 IDE HDs (hda, hdb, and hdc) and one SCSI drive (sda).
Key limitation: the BIOS allows me to set the following boot sequences:
"A, C, SCSI", "C, A, SCSI" and "SCSI, A, C". (There's more sequences, of
course, but the key one I'd like is "A, SCSI, C" which it does not allow.)
Objective: Boot, get LILO onto the SCSI drive, and then reconfig the BIOS
and boot from the SCSI HD.
So to boot off from a floppy I have to boot in the sequence "A, C,
SCSI". When running LILO it would complain about the SCSI drive is not the
first hard drive. Duhh, I know that -- I'm going to make it the first HD
after I get LILO onto it and reset the BIOS. :-)
Running LILO with linear or lba32 didn't help this situation. I haven't
found it in the LILO docs, but I'm guessing that LILO checks the BIOS to
only allow itself to be installed into the first HD that the BIOS detects.
Somewhere I read about adding the LILO options:
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda
bios=0x81
Adding these to lilo.conf LILO now runs without errors. However, after
resetting the BIOS to boot from the SCSI drive first, I just get the "LI"
and then a freeze. So it's still not solved, but I don't think I'm far away
from getting it to work. I'm tired of rebooting so I'll worry about it
later.
On another topic, has anyone played with the GRUB, the GRand Unified
Bootloader? It's a quite nice LILO-like program which seems very, very
flexible. Playing with this and floppies is pretty neat...
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