[ale] lilo help

[tko at westgac3.dragon.com (tko at westgac3.dragon.com)]

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.

-- 
-= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =-
Thomas Kocourek  KD4CIK 
@_ at tko@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address
--... ...-- ...  -.. .  -.- -.. ....- -.-. .. -.-