[ale] lilo help

[David Hamm]

Yes.  I gave each drive it's own scsi address.



On Wed, 9 Sep 1998 tko at westgac3.dragon.com wrote:

> David Hamm writes:
> > Ok so I put the new drive on this morning and I'm having a little lilo
> > problem.  I had to install linux on a spare drive and use 
> > "linux root=/dev/sdb2" at the lilo prompt to get the system up.  At this
> > point I have two drives in the machine, sda & sdb, with lilo properly
> > installed on sda I tried to get lilo installed on sdb but it hangs on
> > boot, all I get is "LI".  Could someone suggest how to get lilo installed
> > on sdb.  
> > Another interesting tidbit. Look at my mount command output.  It does not
> > mention sdb it says I am running off sda2 but if I cat /proc/cmdline I get
> > the following. BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=802 root=/dev/sdb2
> >  #mount 
> > /dev/sda2 on / type ext2 (rw)
> > none on /proc type proc (rw)
> 
> Did you give each drive it's own separate SCSI address? Your description above
> indicates that both drives might have the same SCSI address.
> 
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