>In the context of booting from RAID, the disk geometry is only needed if the
>boot-loader is trying to read from or write to a file on a RAID-1 array that
>contains that partition. But in that case, the disk= and partition= lines
>would
>point to RAID arrays, not normal disks and partitions (see Harald
>Nordgård-Hansen's message to the list of 22 August on the "Booting Root RAID 1
>Directly _Is_ Possible" thread). You may need this section in your
>lilo.conf to
>enable booting, but it has nothing to do with RAID, nor should it be a
>cure for
>the "Sorry, don't know how to handle device 0x0900" error, particularly as I
>believe your /dev/md0 is RAID-0, which cannot be read by lilo whatever
>parameters you pass to it.
>
>The lines in lilo.conf that could produce this error by pointing lilo at
>/dev/md0 are the "boot=", "map=", "install=", "loader=" or "image=" lines. In
>this case, it is clearly not the "boot=/dev/hda" line, as that is a
>straightforward installation of the boot-loader to the MBR on the first IDE
>disk. The "map=", "install=" and "image=" lines all point to files in
>/boot, and
>the absent "loader=" line defaults to /boot/chain.b as well, so if this is
>really the error message you are receiving, your problem is clearly
>something to
>do with /boot. You say that /dev/hda1 is your "boot-disk". Do you mean by this
>that /dev/hda1 is mounted on /boot? If so and you have all the normal files in
>/boot, I don't understand why you get the error message. If not, that is
>why you
>get the error. But even then, I still don't understand how adding disk
>geometry
>for /dev/hda has solved the problem.
>
>Something is not right with your description. Are you really saying that
>removing the disk geometry lines from your lilo.conf results in a "Sorry,
>don't
>know how to handle device 0x0900" error when you run lilo? The device
>number is
>particularly crucial. Could you try it again and check? Be careful that
>the only
>change you make it is to remove the geometry lines. And if you get an
>error, see
>if it is _exactly_ as stated above. Because as it stands, your solution
>doesn't
>make sense, as you yourself recognize.
Hrm, it seems you are right... (figures:-) i just commented those lines out
and it worked....
Must've been another mistake i made which i fixed when i added these lines
to lilo.conf. Cuz
i redid my whole conf file back then...
Sorry for the misinformation :)
Surge
