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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 08:39:55 +0200
To: Daniel Spratlen <spratlen@arches.uga.edu>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: boot problems
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At 19:54 11-6-2001 -0400, Daniel Spratlen wrote:
>Hello xfsers,
>     First off, thank you for your hard and wonderful work.  Now for my
>question.  I have an IBM x220 server, and I can't get RH7.1-xfs to boot
>unless I use the boot disk that I created during the install.  System
>configuration is as follows:
>
># more lilo.conf
>boot=/dev/sda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>message=/boot/message
>linear
>default=linux

You say that you have altered the bios to make it boot from disk 6?
You are NOT writing a boot sector to disk 6 with this config.
If I think I am right sda == id0 and sdg == id6
Edit your lilo.conf to make3 boot=/dev/sda6
It should then write the MBR to the seventh disk in the array.


--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.