On Sat August 18 2007, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > I used LILO for years, and I didn't have problems with it. But I > also new how to handle mixed SCSI/IDE systems. There was no problem > if the IDE controller only had optical drives, but if it had a hard > drive, then lilo would install to the wrong drive if it was a SCSI > boot. It is not supposed to have this problem any more, but I have > not tested it. I do find that LILO works better when you are > installing to a drive that does not have the same BIOS number as it > will have when it is booted. For example, I have a system that boots > off a PCMCIA hard drive. Because the system does not have a floppy > or CD, I did the install on another system. (Actually, I did hte > install manually from another Linux system.) The drive was hde on > the other system, but is hda when it is booted. So you tell LILO > that /dev/hde is BIOS device 80 and install after running chroot to > where the drive is mounted. You then remove that line so that LILO > will not be confused when you do your next update. After moving the > drive to the other machine, it boots fine. With Grub, you have to > modify the device map file before running grub-install, and change > it back after you install. (You are better off building device.map > by hand, instead of letting grub-install do it.) It works, but it is > more complicated. But at least with grub, you can tell it where to > find the drive if you make a mistake, as long as you remember what > partition /boot is. aha! I'll mark this post important so it stays in my mailbox for future reference - I'm almost sure I've encountered this issue in the past, and didn't understand what was happening -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
