From owner-aic7xxx Tue Sep 8 13:57:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA11721 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:57:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.blkbox.com (s70.max1.houston.box.net [206.109.96.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA11716 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 13:57:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jct@blkbox.com) Received: (from jct@localhost) by mail.blkbox.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA02643; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:57:01 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 15:57:01 -0500 Message-Id: <199809082057.PAA02643@mail.blkbox.com> From: Jim Thompson To: "aic7xxx Mailing List" Subject: lilo: "not the first disk" In-Reply-To: <199809080711.RAA27249@homing.atmosphera.com.au> References: <199809080711.RAA27249@homing.atmosphera.com.au> Reply-To: Jim Thompson Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >>>>> "Louis" == Louis Cheung 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