Re: [PLUG] lilo question

[Serguei Ostrovskii <sostrovs@kns.com>]

Serguei Ostrovskii wrote:

> Hello Jeff
> You say you were able to boot from your sda in the past.
> I assume you installed new hda, booted from your sda and
> installed RH on hda. Then you ran lilo.
> If so, at that time BIOS address of your hda was not 0x80 as it should,
> but something unclear ( depends on your SCSI card BIOS ).
> Read about disk= parameter in LILO docs. It is about the address
> of your disk as BIOS will see it at _boot_ time.
> Also, in your master BIOS set IDE ( or C: as it will probably say )
> as your primary boot device. This way, BIOS will access hda as 0x80 device.
>
> HTH.
>
> Sergey Ostrovsky.
>
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Forgot to ask - what exactly are you trying to achieve -
1) Keep having boot MBR on sda and load everything else, or
2) Create boot MBR on hda, ditto ?

Sergey Ostrovsky.



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