[plug] RH 7.2 no go

Grahame Bowland grahame at ucs.uwa.edu.au
Thu Feb 7 16:18:11 WST 2002


On Thu, 2002-02-07 at 15:56, Patrick Tehvand wrote:
> Go into your BIOS and I'd suggest trying to change the addressing mode
> of you harddrive to LBA32. That ought to fix it, but you might need to
> boot off the cd and then run lilo again.
> 
> it was already set as that :(
> 
> also - when i run lilo as root it comess up with a 
> 
> Warning, hdb1 is not on first disk!
> *linux

Change the jumper on the hard drive to make it the master and ensure 
it's on the first IDE bus. If you're not confident doing this look at
using grub to boot (it's an option in Redhat 7.2 to use grub anyway.)

If you change the jumper make sure nothing else is master either!

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