this is simple, just get a lilo boot: prompt and type:
linux root=/dev/sdc1
which will override the root= line in lilo.conf
I realise that i can do this, and have actually changed the lilo.conf
setting (and run lilo) to boot from /dev/sdb1, but I get Warning: /dev/sdb
is not the first hard disk. If I then try to boot with that configuration,
I get the LI situation ...
tks
Andrew
-Original Message-
From: Ethan Benson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, 26 November 2000 9:23 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Installing new SCSI driver in Dell Poweredge - a challenge?
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 03:51:18PM +0800, Andrew McRobert wrote:
the Seagate HDD at id 0, and the config file tells LILO to look for the
kernel and root partition on /dev/sda1.
this is simple, just get a lilo boot: prompt and type:
linux root=/dev/sdc1
which will override the root= line in lilo.conf
If I boot the server with the old Sun HDD attached, I get a message along
the lines of can't find boot device, if I take it out again, the Seagate
drive can't boot (it gets to LI and hangs). What I'd like to do is make
sure that the old Sun HDD is /dev/sdc - NOT /dev/sda - in which case the
machine should boot a-ok. However, for the life of me I can't get Linux to
recognise it as anything but /dev/sda. I've tried setting it's id to 0,
and
the normal Seagate boot drive to 1 (and changed the SCSI controller to
boot
from 1) - but this doesn't work either - the Sun disk is still /dev/sda.
I've also told the BIOS to give the on-board controller a higher boot
priority than the PCI SCSI controller - but this doesn't change
Linux-world.
the linux kernel assigns the device nodes dynamically, whatever disk
it notices first will get /dev/sda, its much simpler to just fix
/etc/fstab and lilo.conf then try and convince the kernel otherwise.
as for the LI stuff maybe you should try grub, i think its much less
fragile then lilo, its also much more powerful and smarter. (you
don't have to reinstall it everytime you touch the kernel files)
--
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
