LILO and Syquest

Article View: aus.computers.linux

Article #57816

Back to aus.computers.linux Previous Next

#57816

From: Ken Lee
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 00:00

23 lines
1419 bytes

I have 200 Meg and a 270 Meg Syquest drive (C: and D: in DOS terminology).
I've copied the filesystems which live on the C: drive onto the Syquest.
Also, I can boot-up on a floppy and mount the Syquest as the root filesystem.

The question is, how can I put a MBR on the Syquest drive without having to
swap the drives around. If I boot-up on floppy and mount the Syquest drive,
LILO thinks the Syquest drive is /dev/hda (rather than /dev/hdb) and writes
the MBR to the 200 Meg drive (huh?).

Maybe I'm not using LILO correctly. The configuration file looks OK. Has
anyone out there had any experience with this situation?

The reason I want to do this is because I install the Syquest cartridges in
machines that only have a Syquest drive and no other hard disk.

Thanks in advance,
	Ken.
-- 
$ Ken Lee  Email: kenl@ausonics.mpx.com.au
$          Voice:    +61 2 9428-6428             Fax: +61 2 9427-3990
$ Organisation: Ausonics International Pty Ltd
$               16 Mars Road Lane Cove NSW 2066 AUSTRALIA

Technical Details

Message-ID: <4vc02j$bd1@ausonics.ausonics.mpx.com.au>

Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 102983,c3440974c03e01b3,start
X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public
From: kenl@ausonics.ausonics.mpx.com.au (Ken Lee)
Subject: LILO and Syquest
Date: 1996/08/20
Message-ID: <4vc02j$bd1@ausonics.ausonics.mpx.com.au>
X-Deja-AN: 175396788
organization: Ausonics International Pty. Ltd.
newsgroups: aus.computers.linux