[lug] LILO problems with System Commander

[George Sexton]

I just did this the other night. LILO is very unforgiving about having a
SCSI drive be the boot drive when you have an IDE drive also. Here's what
happened to me:

Add IDE HD to SCSI system
Booted fine.
Built new kernel and ran LILO.
LILO complained about the SCSI drive not being the 1st drive.
Rebooted
Hung at LI
I then took the IDE HD out and booted. This time the screen was filled with
scrolling 01 01 01 01.

Moral of the story:

LILO really doesn't work right (Now before everyone says: OH, it works for
me... It doesn't work on any machine I have used) if you try to boot off a
SCSI drive in a system with both SCSI and IDE. My final workaround was to
boot the system from a floppy.

George Sexton
MH Software, Inc.
Voice: 303 438 9585
Fax: 303 469 9679
URL: http://www.mhsoftware.com

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-admin at lists.lug.boulder.co.us
[mailto:lug-admin at lists.lug.boulder.co.us]On Behalf Of Carl
vonLoewenfeldt
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 9:24 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Cc: carlvl at uswest.net
Subject: [lug] LILO problems with System Commander


Folks,

Has anybody had the following problem with LILO (running, BTW, on RedHat 6.2
on the
new KRUD distribution):

I usually boot my machine from my SCSI drive, wherein I have my System
Commander set
up.  Last night I installed RedHat 6.2 (aka KRUD) on one of my IDE drives. I
set LILO
to boot from that disk's master boot record (/dev/hdc); the root partition
is on
/dev/hdc1. System Commander sees Linux on the correct drive and partition,
but when I
try to boot from System Commander I get the infamous "LI" partial boot and
hang.

RedHat boots very nicely from the boot floppy, and if I change my BIOS boot
sequence
it will boot from the IDE drive itself. However it consistently hangs up
when I try
to initiate LILO on the IDE from System Commander on the SCSI.

I've tried LILOing to the partition itself, to one of the other native Linux
partitions on the IDE, removed and added the OS entries under System
Commander, and
keep getting the same consistent behavior.

Any ideas?

     _/_/_/                     Carl vonLoewenfeldt
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