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Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2001 01:01:07 +0200
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To: Wakko Warner <wakko@animx.eu.org>, Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: LILO calling modprobe?
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On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 06:03:31PM -0400, Wakko Warner wrote:

> > > Before doing anything LILO v21 collects the hda, hdb, sda, sdb info.
> > > There is no problem, certainly no kernel problem.
> > 
> > Sure it isn't a problem, but it's really annoying if it won't need to
> > touch hda anyway.
> > 
> > Is there a reason that it does this?
> 
> I believe there is.  It wants to find what drive is bios drive 80h.

Yes.

> I had a machine at work with both ide and scsi.  ide hdd was hdc and ide
> cdrom was hda just to keep lilo from thinking hdc is the first bios drive
> which infact sda was

But why don't you use the bios keyword? From lilo.conf(5):

              For example,

                     disk=/dev/sda
                          bios=0x80
                     disk=/dev/hda
                          bios=0x81

              would say that your SCSI disk  is  the  first  BIOS
              disk,  and  your  (primary  master) IDE disk is the
              second BIOS disk.
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