Martin Cleaver wrote:
>
> Lilo is the bane of my life :
>
> I have just installed Mandrake 5.3 on my Desktoip machine... with SCSI and IDE. But
> whatever configuration I use, I can't get further than LLI, apart from on the boot
> floppy :-(
>
> There are of course several vriables:
>
> BIOS
>
> SCSI
>
> LILO...
>
> I have two SCSI drives (2 GB each) with Windows and fat32 partitioning (C and D) and
>a
> 10GB IDE drive with 3 native Linux partitions (2 GB each) and a swap and a 2 GB
>fat32 in
> the extended partition. /dev/hda1 is the boot partition for Linux and /dev/sda1 is
>boot
> for Windows. I have tried putting the lilo boot onto /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, /dev/sda
>and
> /dev/sda1, but never get further than LI. For some reasion, Lilo also tells me that
>/sda
> is not the first disk.
> In the BIOS, I can choose between SCSI or IDE scanning first and it's possible that
>the
> Adaptec setup would let me change a parameter to influience things (?)
>
> I have read numerous texts on the net about this, but still can't get to the bottom
>of
> it... Who can help???
>
> Rgds
>
> Martin
>
check this out.....
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/RedHat-FAQ/RedHat-FAQ-6.html#ss6.22
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Lloyd Osten
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