Lilo and scsi and ide disk

[LocalHero]

Hello. I have a new server. Its an abit vp6 motherboard running dual P3 1ghz with 4x60gb ide and a 9,1gb scsi disk on an advansys scsi card. I think the system is great. There is only one problem. I am using the scsi disk as the root partition and have made an raid 5 array of the ide disk. I am experiencing great preformance and redundance

Ok, now to the problem. I have selected to boot on the scsi card and when the scsi bios is done it has selected the scsi as the boot disk, everything is ok.

Ok, this thing assumes that i have installed on the scsi disk first and then added the other disks. Cause then it works. But if you imagine that i add the drive and compile a new kernel and then run lilo i get an warning that says that /dev/sda is not the first disk? And when i do a reboot it just says LI, So i have to remove al the ide disks everytime i run lilo so that the scsi is the first disk? How can i tell the kernel, lilo or whatever that is wrong that the scsi disk actually is the first as it is when the bios put over controll to the os?

OK,, home anybody get anything out of this

Cya l8er
/Alexander

 

[MrTom]

at the top of lilo.conf try

disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
disk = /dev/hda
bios = 0x81


this tells lilo which way round they are. i'm assuming you raid5 array is shown as hda.

 

[LocalHero]

Haha, it works.. Lots of thanks to you .. Now i can skip to unplug all the 4 ide cables.
Thanx