anthony_Melia@Dell.com wrote:

I get a message running lilo saying something to the effect of (I didn't make a note of the error) 'BIOS 80H drive cannot be accessed', also during kernal boot I see a message saying IDE2 address already in use. I have 4 IDE drives, (3 hard drives and a cdrom as master on controller2). I have done dozens of SUSE 5.3 installs with just 2 HD's and 1 cdrom in the machine and hadn't had a problem. I have verified that all partitions on all drives can be mounted, so it can actually access the drives. Also after this error, my boot record is screwed, it boots with continious '0101010101' on screen.

Any ideas?

You should switch to a system where you mount /boot in /dev/hda1, and put all your kernels in there. Also double check your master-slave jumpers on everything. That is what I have resorted to, and it is the reason that the newer linux versions put their kernels in /boot instead of /. It makes lilo foolproof. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>