Re: lilo and removable media

[Patrizio Bruno]

Have a look to the lilo.conf man page at the keyword "disk=".

On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:

> Hi, everyone.
> 
> I have recently added an IDE ZIP drive to the system, and when I run lilo
> I get the following messages:
> Jan 22 16:01:05 werewolf kernel: ide-floppy: hda: I/O error, pc =  0, key =  2,
> asc = 3a, ascq =  0
> Jan 22 16:01:05 werewolf kernel: ide-floppy: hda: I/O error, pc = 1b, key =  2,
> asc = 3a, ascq =  0
> Jan 22 16:01:05 werewolf kernel: ide-floppy: hda: I/O error, pc = 5a, key =  5,
> asc = 24, ascq =  0
> 
> Also, if I run lilo with the zip (/dev/hda) mounted, or unmounted but
> still inserted, I get:
> 
> Warning: /dev/sda is not on the first disk
> 
> and the box does not boot, get stuck at 'LI'. If I run lilo without a
> zip in the drive, I get the above messages but al works allright.
> 
> Is there any way to say lilo to ignore hda ?
> 
> My /etc/fstab:
> 
> /dev/sda1	/			ext2	defaults 1 1
> /dev/sda8	swap		swap	defaults 0 0
> proc		/proc		proc	defaults 0 0
> swapfs		/dev/shm	swapfs	defaults 0 0
> devpts		/dev/pts	devpts	mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/sda5	/usr		ext2	defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda6	/usr/local	ext2	defaults 1 2
> /dev/sda7	/home		ext2	defaults 1 2
> /dev/hda	/mnt/zip	auto	user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev 0 0
> /dev/hdc	/mnt/cdrom	auto	user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev,ro
> 0 0
> /dev/fd0	/mnt/floppy	auto	user,noauto,nosuid,noexec,nodev 0
> 0
> 
> -- 
> J.A. Magallon                                                      $> cd pub
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> 
> Linux werewolf 2.4.0-ac10 #1 SMP Sat Jan 20 10:43:18 CET 2001 i686
> 
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