[4981] in RedHat Linux List
Re: IDE hard drive problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clinton B. Wunderlich)
Mon Nov 18 12:52:10 1996
From: "Clinton B. Wunderlich" <cbw@jagnew.cstone.net>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 12:45:34 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <9611181655.AA10182@glacier> from Rick Forrester at "Nov 18, 96 08:55:17 am"
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> Many BIOS's out there do not support booting from any drive except the
> first two; i.e. hda & hdb or sda & sdb. You can use > 2 drives; just
> can't boot from them. I've got (due to educational needs of a
> project) 4 Linux & 1 Win95 installations right now. I have two boot
> partitions on sda and 3 on sdb, with the rest of the partitions
> distributed on other drives. There are other advantages to
> distributing your partitions, also, especially with scsi drives.
I do understand that booting problem, but I don't think that is
a factor here.. it does successfully boot off the floppy,
then mounts / at /dev/hdc2, and everything works fine.
It's not until I try to run lilo again to change the information
on that floppy that I see the error...
ide: Warning BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible
.... /dev/hdc may have an invalid entry... run .../scripts/
MAKEDEV.ide to correct the problem.
I ran MAKEDEV.ide, and it didn't help anything.
Thanks for the info.. if you know anything else, it's
greatly appreciated..
Clint
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