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Re: [LUG] lilo.conf problems



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Jonathan Melhuish wrote:
> Le Jeudi 24 Avril 2003 17:01, Neil Stone a crit :
>
>>Has the new hdd had it's boot partition marked (fdisk.. option A iirc)
>
>
> We're not installing any new hard disks, just swapping the IDE
channels so
> that the CD burner is on the secondary IDE channel.
>
> I don't know if this is necessary but the CD burner isn't showing up
in a SCSI
> bus scan, even though we added the correct append line in lilo.conf, so I
> thougt it was worth a try.

I think these guys are hard on poor old lilo, it's always worked for me.

My first question would be is all the hardware showing up and working as
IDE devices when booted from a rescue disk of some kind (Debian install
CD's are very handy for this sort of thing). SCSI emulation you can
worry about later.

What exactly are the errors...

Hmm I've no idea how Linux handles it's device files, but will they have
the wrong details if you move the disks? Most Unix's are very good about
having broken device files deleted*, and recreate them on boot without
interaction, but it might be as well to check if this is the problem,
and what Linux does before deleting any of them ;)

You do have a nice solid backup somewhere, right?

 Simon

* Windows is very mellow about the equivalent blasting of the System
Control Panel Applet's contents as well.
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