Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3254 mails)

[Damon Register <damon.w.register@xxxxxxxx>]

"L. Mark Stone" wrote:
> 
> Damon,
> 
> I'm the original poster and I agree with you that removing a non-bootable device then I am convinced that Oliver is wrong.  Though he maybe right about
what he said, you confirmed that it was not a boot device that was
removed.  What does LBA or CHS have to do with this if the booting
device never changed.

>shouldn't have caused this problem, as long as I cleaned up fstab
>(which I did) and reinstalled LILO exactly where it was before.
but did you edit lilo.conf?  You almost certainly will have to edit
lilo.conf to shuffle the devices there.  Did you change the disk= 
section in lilo.conf?  Because you removed a drive, the other drives
that were after it will have a different bios number.

> But I took the BFI way out (Brute Force and Ignorance) and just reinstalled Linux.  
Too bad.  Now I will never know if what I am thinking is correct.
I have exactly (almost) the same situation here.  In my case the
second scsi drive is an HP optical drive.  

Damon Register