Dan,
Boy, after reading all that, I don't think there is much hope for a
newb, dummie, like myself. I would never have figured all that out.
BTW, where is the Kpackage located, and what is its purpose?
Thanks,
Will
----- Original Message -----
From: Dan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Mandrake Newbie List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 4:35 AM
Subject: [newbie] More lilo problems...
> OK, this isn't really a Mandrake problem, but it _is_ happening on my
> Mandrake system...
>
> Some of you may recall that I had some trouble with lilo last week. In
> short, my system boots (both Linux and Windoze) from a SCSI hard drive,
> but I have an IDE drive attached for storage purposes. The BIOS is set
> to boot the SCSI drive first, which it does, and System Commander then
> allows me to select whether I want to boot Win98 or Linux. When I try
> to run lilo in this configuration, though, it warns me that /dev/sda3 is
> not on the first hard disk. When I subsequently try to boot, it gets as
> far as "LI" and then gives up.
>
> My workaround for this problem is to detach the IDE drive when I need
> to use lilo. Elegant it ain't, but it works.
>
> That was a week ago. This past weekend, I bought a new IDE hard
> drive. I figured I could copy all my Linux stuff to that drive, and
> then boot from there. I created a primary partition of 350 MB for /,
> and placed the other partitions (and a large FAT32 partition) in an
> extended partition. I expected that lilo wouldn't complain any more,
> since /dev/hda1 is (in its estimation) on the first disk.
>
> I was right--sort of. After changing the references in lilo.conf to
> refer to /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/sda3, lilo ran without any errors,
> warnings, or other complaints. Then I rebooted the system. System
> Commander came up as usual, I selected Linux from the correct drive--and
> got the all-too-familiar "LI" again, whereupon the system froze.
>
> I am able to boot my Linux system from /dev/hda1 in two ways now: (1)
> use a boot floppy, and (2) alter the BIOS settings to boot A,C,SCSI
> (rather than A,SCSI,C) whenever I want to run Linux. Both of these
> methods work fine, but either one is a bit of a hack.
>
> An overview of the lilo documentation didn't uncover anything useful to
> my problem. I suspect the issue is that lilo believes (incorrectly)
> that the IDE drive is the first drive and the SCSI drive is the second
> one, irrespective of the boot order, and then it sets itself to look for
> the boot information on "the first drive" (or whatever). Is there any
> way to tell lilo that /dev/sda really _is_ the first disk (or that
> /dev/hda _isn't_)? Or any other way to take care of this? Many thanks
> for any help.
>
> --
> Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good
> with ketchup.
