> Adam Fritzler wrote:
> >
> > instead of their rightful places at hda and hdc. Well, that means I can't
> > install LILO, because for LILO, /dev/hde can never be the boot drive. So,
> > I'm using the LILO MBR I had before and manually adding "root=/dev/hde1"
> > to the line at reboots.
>
> > This is not really a critical problem (the system works fine), but it's
> > kind of a nuisance not to be able to do automated reboots. This is kernel
>
> While I can't explain this, if not anything else, you can enable the builtin IDE and
> use a small, leftover disk as hda just for /boot and LILO.
>
While this is a possible course of action for most people, its not
possible for me, since my old pentium mothermoard *doesn't* have onboard
IDE ports (although, oddly enough the BIOS does supports it) , rather
its SCSI (AIC7870).
So hda doesn't exist in any form...
Jimmy
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