Hi,
this is a small howto for booting from a scsi disk in a system where
scsi and ide disks are install. It's not that easy :-) I might setup
a little Autoyast page some day, collecting all those kind of hints
I figured out...
When you have /dev/hda and /dev/sda in your system:
1) Set up
<bootloader>
<global config:type="list">
<key>disk</key>
<value>disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80</value>
<key>disk</key>
<value>disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81</value>
<global>
...
</bootloader>
to generate the lines
disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80
disk=/dev/hda bios=0x81
in lilo.conf.
2) To make lilo install on /dev/sda instead of /dev/hda
there seems to be only one way which is not yet documented:
<bootloader>
lilo
<location>custom</location>
/dev/sda
</bootloader>
The "custom" value for location seems to do the trick. Any other combination
that seems to make sens, will fail. E.g.
location = mbr
loader_device = /dev/sda
ends up with "boot=/dev/hda"
location = /
ends up with /dev/hda1, although "/" is /dev/sda1 in my system.
Using global options with key=boot and value=/dev/sda is also
ignored.
cu,
Frank
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