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Re: [SLE] Lilo Error Message-->Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
  • From: kuhlmav@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Volker Kuhlmann)
  • Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 11:34:58 +1200 (NZST)
  • Message-id: <199910012334.LAA23775@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



> > There is absolutely no way with LILO to make it access 0x81 instead of
> > 0x82 (though an option for doing this would be nice). I emailed the LILO
> > author about this but never even got a response.
>
> I thought that's what the "disk=/dev/xxx bios=0x82"-type thing is for..
> basically telling LILO "when you boot, THIS drive will be there, THAT drive
> will be here, regardless of where they are now".

You are right!! Works fine now - but it sure didn't when I tried every
sensible (and a few others) combination from the manual. I now have a
sneaky suspicion that I had added the disk= and bios= lines under the
image= part... So thanks for putting me on track.

Volker


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