On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > It looks like your BIOS does not allows access to the devices on the > second IDE cotroller when booting. The thing LILO was warning you about > is realy a problem on this system. Nothing you add to your lilo.conf is > going to help with that. Upgrading the BIOS may help.
Thanks Mikkel, You are right, nothing I do to lilo.conf helps. I'm a little surprised that the bios can't boot hdd. Oh well. > You may also be able to boot the system using Grub instead of Lilo, but > I do not know for sure. I have not used it enough, or read enought, to > know exactly how it does things... I'll probably not try to mess with grub until I install 7.2. > If you have a /boot partition on one of the first 2 hard drives, you > could share it between the two installations, as Lilo only needs to be > able to load the kernel, and the initial RAM disk. You could put the > files in /boot of the Guinness install, and edit lilo.conf so that it > uses them there. > > Mikkel I no longer boot to my guiness installation, so I guess I'll just repartition hdb and give myself a /boot there. Would it be easier to just move hdd to hdb? Would I have to change anything other than /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf? Thanks for the info, Arend _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
