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Re: Problem with LILO



On 26-Dec-98 Ariel Biener wrote:

>  I have a SCSI 2GB disk as
>  my root device, and two other IDE disks. The boot order in the BIOS is
>  SCSI 1st, IDE 2nd. After I installed Windows98, I booted up Linux with a
>  diskette, and ran lilo to update the MBR. But, surprise surprise, lilo
>  told me that `Warning: /dev/sda is not the first disk'. And it kept on
>  telling me that no matter what I did, for 3 hours of different games I
>  played with it. I never encountered it before. When I got tired of it, I
>  disabled the IDE interfaces in the BIOS, rebooted, and since now /dev/sda
>  was the *only* disk left, lilo finally agreed to set the master boot
>  record. (I didn't mention it, but till I did this, after running lilo and
>  getting the warning, the system booted up with LI . I tried all the lilo
>  tricks I know of).

I've encountered similar problem twice. The solution was to tell lilo the bios
device number of the disk (in the global section):

disk=/dev/sda
  bios=0x80

Depending on the way the mboard BIOS interacts with the SCSI BIOS, you may have
to set bios=0x82 (yes!). This won't eliminate the warning, but the system
should boot correctly.

Regards,

Evgeny

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