On Monday 19 August 2002 03:31 pm, Robert P. Goldman wrote: > Did you ever get a response to this (July) email? > > I have an IDE RAID card using the Promise set in my linux box. I was > never able to get the RAID aspect to work and, reading about it, it > wasn't clear that it was even worth tryin g --- several sources said > that Linux s/w RAID was actually better performance than IDE RAID. > > Whatever. > > So I just treated the RAID device as two separate drives, /dev/hde and > /dev/hdf. That's cool. But I can't figure out how to make LILO boot > from hde. So I'm booting from floppy, which seems totally lame. > > Any suggestions? I've looked around at google, but most everything I > find has to do with either (a) trying to make the IDE RAID device work > as a RAID device (I don't care) or (b) booting from Linux s/w RAID. > > Thanks! > R If you could send/post a copy of lilo.conf that you used to try to get it to boot from hde, that might be a help. It should look something like this: boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map vga=normal default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 prompt nowarn timeout=50 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda3 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" vga=788 read-only