Re: Getting LILO to boot another disk

[Al Sparks <data345 yahoo com>]

Your setup involves an IDE drive, which I don't have.  Surfing around,
I've seen configurations where the system loads the MBR from /dev/hda
(the IDE drive) and then boots into a SCSI drive, that's not RAID
configured.

That being said, I'm used to older SCSI systems where the lowest SCSI
ID number is the drive that's booted from.  I'm finding that with this
modern marvel, I'm able to go into the SCSI setup utility and specify
which drive (and therefore which MBR where LILO resides) to boot from. 
So I don't need help on this issue after all.

Thanks for the help.
   === Al

--- "Michael R. Jinks" <mjinks saecos com> wrote:
> Al Sparks wrote:
> 
> > My setup is RH 6.2.
> 
> 
> Upgrade.  Just my humble opinion.  Moving right along...
> 
> > Hard drives are SCSI.  On 'SCSI 0' I have one
> > install, and I installed RH on 2 identical drives ('SCSI 1' and 'SCSI
> > 2') as a software RAID 1 setup.  When I turn the machine on, the 'SCSI
> > 0' disk is accessed, and the LILO on that MBR is run.  From what I've
> > read, LILO on a particular MBR is great for booting off of different
> > partitions on the SAME drive.
> 
> 
> My box at home has LILO on one drive and everything else on another. 
> It's all taken care of in the lilo.conf file, check out the "root=" 
> directive.  In my case, the MBR is on /dev/hda, while the root 
> filesystem is on /dev/sda1, so my lilo.conf section has the line 
> "root=/dev/sda1".
> 
> Caveat: I do not know how things change for RAID, but I believe there's 
> a root-RAID HOWTO, it should cover booting.



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