The drive door command is not performed in LILO. This is much later.
The only things I know that can cause the LI problem is:
1/ not using linear
2/ if the image was built on a different IDE place from where is is being
booted from then not having the "bios = 0x81" or equivalent would cause this
problem.
malcolm
John Markham wrote:
> Look in ide.c. Your disk may be reporting itself as a removable drive in
> which case the system sends some "drive door" commands. These are
> unsupported by the drive and Lilo craps out. You should be able to decipher
> a couple of fixes in the code but one way is to add your drive to a table in
> the code.
>
> John Markham
> EnFlex Corp.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Walter Zimmer
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2000 6:13 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Old IDE driver and Flashdisks
>
> Hi !
>
> We are using JumpTec PCs with IDE Flashdiscs. Other than the
> "SeekComplete"-error which we ignore we have made an observation:
>
> Compiling a kernel with the new IDE driver, we realize that we
> can't get lilo to write to the boot sector properly. It just
> prints out "LI" at boot time and stops.
>
> If we use the "old IDE" driver, it works. Perhaps some kernel
> guru can enlighten us where there might be the difference
> between those IDE drivers ? Does it relate to the
> "SeekComplete"-error ?
>
> Now we have the problem that we have a JumpTec ETX system with
> the boot flash disc on hdc (master disc on second IDE).
> Since the old IDE driver doesn't recognize the second IDE
> controller, we can't get LILO to boot from this disc, it just
> says "LI" again (when written with the new driver) :(
>
> Did anyone else make this observation and found a fix ? Right
> now we can't see any possibility to get lilo to boot from hdc...
>
> Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Walter
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