Topic: lilo.conf config with Promise Ultra ATA/100 HDD controller

[Holger Erlands-Petersen]

Hi,

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

[Tom Trent]

You didn't mention it, so don't be offended if I ask, did you run /sbin/lilo after editing lilo.conf?  I have a similar setup that works ok for me.

Tom

[Holger Erlands-Petersen]

Hi Tom,

Yes I did run /sbin/lilo after editing lilo.conf.
The problem was (I think), that /sbin/lilo updated
the map file on the harddisk and not on the diskette
I booted from.
Recently I changed from the SCSI to an IDE system disk.
Know everything works fine and I have access to my big ATA/100
HDD on the Promise controller card.

/Holger

[Holger Erlands-Petersen]

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