Lilo and device 5d01

[Brian Michalk]

I read the man page.
I tried all sorts of combinations.
The most logical:
disk=/dev/nftla
	bios=0x80

doesn't work.  I get the fatal: Sorry, don't know how to handle device
0x5d01.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: timr at sisko.awpi.com [mailto:timr at sisko.awpi.com]On Behalf Of Tim
> Riker
> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 12:48 PM
> To: Brian Michalk
> Cc: mtd at infradead.org
> Subject: Re: Lilo and device 5d01
>
>
> >From "man lilo.conf":
>
> bios=' parameter.
>
> The BIOS numbers your disks 0x80, 0x81, etc. and
> it is impossible to decide which Linux disk
> corresponds to which BIOS disk (since this depends
> on the BIOS setup, and on the type of BIOS), so if
> you have an unusual setup you need to state the
> correspondence between Linux disks and BIOS
> disks. For example,
>
> disk=/dev/sda
>         bios=0x80
> disk=/dev/hda
>         bios=0x81
> Brian Michalk wrote:
> >
> > This came up a week or two ago.
> >
> > How do I tell Lilo that disk 0x5d01 is really disk 0x80?
> >
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