> > > Is there a reason that it does this? > > > > I believe there is. It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h. > > Yes. > > > I had a machine at work with both ide and scsi. ide hdd was hdc and ide > > cdrom was hda just to keep lilo from thinking hdc is the first bios drive > > which infact sda was > > But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5): I was only explaining. I foundout about the bios keyword after searching. But I didn't have time then to do the searching and didn't care. it worked for me. I don't boot scsi drives on any of my systems that also have ide. I prefer the systems to be either, but not both (test boxes excluded =) -- Lab tests show that use of micro$oft causes cancer in lab animals - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/