adding disk confuses lilo

[Dan Egli]

Jonathan Ellis wrote:

> My server has three disks; hda, hdc, and hdd.  c and d are on the 
> secondary controller.  When I add another disk (as slave) to the 
> primary controler, lilo gets to the infamous "LI" and stops.  Remove 
> the slave, and it boots fine from the master like it always has.  Any 
> idea why this should be a problem?  Reinstalling lilo should fix it 
> but I'm curious why it's blowing chunks so badly.
>
> -Jonathan
>
> .===================================.
> | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. |
> |      Don't Fear the Penguin.      |
> `==================================='

Where is your /boot partition, and your / partition? If either of those 
is on hdc or hdd then thats the issue. Lilo only uses those names for 
human readabliity. Internally it refers to physical device #. And when 
you add a primary slave with 2ndary master/slave already present, the 
2ndary physical device #s change.

At least, that is how I THINK it works :>

No Flames please! :>