Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:57:01 -0500 From: Jim Thompson <jct@blkbox.com> To: "aic7xxx Mailing List" <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: lilo: "not the first disk" Message-ID: <199809082057.PAA02643@mail.blkbox.com> In-Reply-To: <199809080711.RAA27249@homing.atmosphera.com.au> References: <199809080711.RAA27249@homing.atmosphera.com.au>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
>>>>> "Louis" == Louis Cheung <Louis@atmosphera.com.au> writes:
>> Finally after the installation, I had the problem to make lilo
>> use the MBR of the /dev/sda, it kept telling "not the first
>> disk",
Louis> About your problem, it bother me too. But I found a work
Louis> around. You said "I was able to mount the SCSI-disk from my
Louis> older IDE-drive." The problem is your IDE drive, Linux think
Louis> it is the first disk. If you want to boot from /dev/sda,
Louis> than first unplug the IDE cable from your IDE HDD (disable
Louis> them under BIOS will NOT do this trick). Re run lilo, it
Louis> should not have the problem again.
I know this is a little off-topic, but since it came up, I'll ask...
Does anyone know how to avoid the above problem, and get lilo to
recognize the SCSI disk as the boot ("first") disk in a mixed IDE/SCSI
system? I had this problem myself, and pored over the lilo man page
looking for a workaround but found none. That version of lilo, at
least, won't install a boot record to a SCSI disk if there's an IDE disk
present. Perhaps my lilo is old?
BTW, with some BIOSes disabling both the disk and the IDE controller
will do the trick -- you don't have to unplug the IDE drive. This is
true of the Award BIOS on my old Asus mobo.
Jim
--
_ |
_| ~- Jim Thompson | Flinging magnetic curses...
\, _} jim.thompson@pobox.com |
\( http://pobox.com/~kzinti | int main = 0x0ff0c8c7;
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199809082057.PAA02643>