On Tuesday 26 February 2002 07:48 am, Kevin Donnelly wrote: ----------snip----------------
Interesting thread. I originally had a 30Gb drive with Windows on it (hda), and installed a second 4Gb one with Suse 7.1 (hdd). I could boot into both OSs OK. Then I took that out and replaced it with a 40Gb IBM drive. I had problems partitioning this, and had to use IBM's utility to "clear" the drive. Then I used Partition Magic to format it, and put 7.2 on it. ----------snip---------------- lilo -q gives the same reading as Clayton's: Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
lilo -T geom=0x82 gives: bios=0x82, cylinders=1024, heads=255, sectors=63 EDD packet calls allowed
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I also get that message but I just assumed that lilo only "guaranteed" the first 2 disks to be bootable (hda and hdb) which in my case are both on the first ide controller. I actually do use a boot partition on the third disk as well, lilo is just warning that it may not work. dh