Topic: lilo.conf configuration

[Holger Erlands-Petersen]

Hi,

I've tried to post this in the General Discussion Forum without any luck.
Maybe someone in this forum can help?


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I hope someone can help me with this.
I have my SME 5.0 server running from a SCSI drive. I boot my server from a floppy diskette (for some reason my BIOS won't let me boot right of the SCSI drive - but that's not the problem here).

My problem is: I want to add a new disk to the system. The new disk is of type ATA/100 (Seagate Barracuda 40GB). The IDE controller on the motherboard does not support this type of disk - so I invested in the Promise Ultra controller.
From the nice people at Promise Technology I was told to type this
at the (floppy) boot prompt:

linux ide2=0x9400,0x9502 ide3=0x9600,0x9702

or add the line

append="ide2=0x9400,0x9502 ide3=0x9600,0x9702"

to the file lilo.conf .

If I type the above at the boot prompt, linux find the controller and give me a new drive (hde). But I'm lazy - so I tried to change the lilo.conf on my floppy diskette like shown below:

boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/vmlinuz-2.2.19-7.0.8
append="ide2=0x9400,0x9502 ide3=0x9600,0x9702"
label=linux
root=/dev/sda6
initrd=/initrd.img

But i does not work (I also tried to put the "append=" line at the bottom of the file).

Any suggestions to what I can do to get my controller and new disk working?

/Holger

[Dan Brown]

Did you re-run lilo after making this change?

[Juan Jesus Prieto]

I think it's ok. Did you executed '# lilo'?.
Try first '# lilo -t' to test it and then '# lilo' to push the new conf.

[Holger Erlands-Petersen]

Hi Dan and Juan,

Yes I have executed lilo after the change.
'lilo -t' gives the following message.

    [root@yggdrasil etc]# lilo -t
    Added esmith *
    The boot sector and the map file have *NOT* been altered.
    [root@yggdrasil etc]#

Maybe lilo is using lilo.conf on the harddisk and not the one on the floppy
diskette?

/Holger

[Holger Erlands-Petersen]

I've replaced the SCSI system disk with an IDE drive.
Now I can boot from the IDE drive and append the IDE information
to lilo.conf. Everything works fine.

/Holger