Re: Lilo and booting with failed first disk

[christophe leroy]

This is because when you write your boot record on /dev/hdc, /dev/hda is there

so your /dev/hdc is seen as bios disk 0x81, but when you boot without
/dev/hda,
it is bios disk 0x80, so lilo which try and load from 0x81 fails.
What you must do is remove /dev/hda, then write your lilo record.

Christophe