Re: LILO Boot or not

[Mike Burger <mburger bubbanfriends org>]

LILO needs to be on the drive that's actually booting...in an IDE setup,
that's /dev/hda.

On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Linux wrote:

> Hi
>
> I have just put RHL7.1 on a new Intel 815EEAA based system. It has 256Mb
> Memory and a single 40Gb IDE hard disk.
> It has installed OK but during the post configuration it has come up with
> the LILO error
>
> " an error occurred while installing the boot loader
>  it is highly recommended that you format a floppy...
>  The error reported was
>  warning /dev/hdb is not the fist disk"
>
> Any clues
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Mike
>
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