[H-GEN] Boot from floppy

[Steve Pinel]

At 07:45 PM 9/1/98 +1000, Jeff Hutchinson wrote:
>Steve Pinel wrote:
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>> BTW, I've found that if I disconnet the Win drive, then LILO works fine on
>> the one remaining drive.  I assume that this is what you mean?  I must have
>> LILO installed on the Win disk as well?
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>  Steve,
>            Sorry to confuse you.  I have found if LILO is on the first hd
 on
>the scsi  bus then linux will
>boot from that drive. For example, I have a scsi drives at ID1 and ID5.
In the
>past,  I have wanted to
>boot from ID5 so I disconnect  ID1 and boot from ID5. (ID1 -redhat  , ID5
>-slackware).
>
>So place LILO on the lowest number ID .

I have a CDROM at id0, and the linux drive at ID2.  Is this still cool?  Is
it possible that with both HDs installed (IDs 2 & 4), and if both have boot
sectors (one LILO, the other Win95), that there is some sort of conflict,
resulting in the 'LI' that I see before it hangs?

Did some more research and confirmed that the 'LI' only happens if i have
bothe SCSI drives connected.  If I boot from a floppy, I get a 'error
0x010' message after it loads the boot kernel off the floppy, and then
pauses, and tries to load the kernel again.  Does this make sense?  I can't
find in my documentation what the error message means.

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>Hope this helps,
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>Jeff
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