On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 09:12:31AM -0400, Scott Savarese wrote: >> which would tell lilo to put its boot sector at the beginning of hdc1 >> and its mirrored copy. > >I made the change but the black magic isn't working...I am getting L 80 >80... again. > L 80 means that LILO loaded the boot sector, but a disk not ready error prevented it from finding the second stage boot loader (/boot/boot.b) looks like it is looking on the wrong drive... are you 100% positive that you have replaced lilo with a standard dos mbr on hdc? another option is to use: disk = /dev/hdc bios = 0x80 boot = /dev/hdc in your lilo.conf, but this does not work seamlessly with raid and you need two lilo.conf (one for hda and one for hdc) L. -- Luca Berra -- bluca@comedia.it Communication Media & Services S.r.l. /"\ \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN X AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html