First, don't make any physical changes to your setup - they aren't necessary.
And you don't need to move /boot either.
As you watch your boot sequence you should see the SCSI drive being initialized. Look
at this
closely and you should see the BIOS drive number. Something like 0x81 or just 81.
Then check out: man lilo.conf
In the section disk=device-name
Add some lines to lilo.conf near the top like this:
disk=/dev/sda
bios=0x81
then run lilo and reboot!
I ran into this problem when a BIOS update caused the IDE ZIP drive to be BIOS drive
82 which
moved my SCSI drives to 83 and 84.
Bruce
> I've got Redhat 6.2 installed on a 17GB IBM Ultra SCSI hard drive
> connected to a TekRam 390B (Symbios chipset) SCSI controller.
>
> Until the following events, I was able to boot into Linux from the
> SCSI hard drive (/dev/sda) which held the boot partition (/boot on
> /dev/sda1). I recently added a 13GB Maxtor IDE drive as supplemental
> storage. I also added an Adaptec 2901 PCI SCSI controller (no
> boot-rom, external connector only).
>
> I discovered that only 64MB of the installed 128MB RAM was
> recognized. I edited lilo.conf and added 'append = "mem=128M" and ran
> lilo and I got a message "Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk".
>
> When I rebooted the PC, lilo freezes after "LI".
>
> I've tried various options in lilo.conf (pointing to /dev/sda1,
> /dev/hda, /dev/hda1, removing the append = "mem=128M" line), but I
> can't boot the PC without using a boot floppy.
>
> I've also updated to the new version of lilo (21.4-2) that breaks the
> 1024 cylinder barrier, but that hasn't changed anything.
>
> Can anyone help me boot from either of my hard drives? The only thing
> I can think of doing now is backing up my data and reinstalling
> RedHat 6.2 with the /boot partition on /dev/hda instead of on
> /dev/sda.
>
>
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