On 3 Sep, John P. Griffin wrote:
I can get LILO to work if, and only if, the only SCSI disk active on the bus is the SuSE 6.4 disk.
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Detailed basic rundown of events: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- I got the plain vanilla SuSE 6.4 installed, with selected packages. However, at reboot I couldn't get LILO to load up the eide kernel. It would halt with:
'LI'
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I then unplugged the SCSI (windows 98) disk at ID-1, reset the '/etc/fstab' and '/etc/lilo.conf' accordingly to make the SuSE 6.4 disk '/dev/sda1'. This requires a couple of reboots and booting 'Rescue System' to successfully change these puppies, BTW. With just one disk, LILO works! But, although not a show-stopper, it would be nice to have the other SCSI disk available when up in Linux.
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What the hey, I keep asking myself what am I missing?
Ok, this is a long shot into the dark, but anyway. Have you tried booting the machine with just the Windrive connected? More specifically. Did you at any time used that disk with Linux/LILO? It might be that for some reason it is always finding that disk and try to start what ever it finds in its boot sector. I know, it shouldn't boot from it, but then again, I have worked to long with computers to ever say "never" again. It could be worth a try. Just to make certain. Good luck. TJo -- This Email is 100% Virus Free! How do I know? Because no Microsoft products were used to generate it! -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq