booting with 3 controlers

From: Eric Edwards (ese002_at_news9.exile.org)
Date: 08/22/05 

Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 07:12:08 +0000 (UTC)

I have three controllers on my Mandrake 10.2 system.

1) Adaptec hpt370 based raid controller
2) SiI680 based raid controller used as non-raid
3) VIA vt8235 on-board IDE controller

Boot disk is on the VIA. Without the other controllers, the boot disk
would be /dev/hda. CD is /dev/hdc

I can boot with either one of the PCI controlers and the VIA. But if I put
in both, the kernel panics after pivotroot fails.

If I boot from the CD, I can see that the hpt370 takes up hda-d and the
Sil680 is hde-h. It stands to reason that the boot disk should be hdi
but it is not listed and the rescue menu refuses to re-install lilo
claiming it can't find the boot disk.

It seems to me that I ought to be able to boot the system if I modify my
lilo entry to have root=/dev/hdi1
Unfortunately, lilo refuses to install the boot block saying:
Fatal: Illegal 'root=' specification: /dev/hdi1
Maybe because there is not, at the time of execution, a /dev/hdi1?
If so, how can I tell lilo to stop second-guessing me and except that
there will be /dev/hdi1?

Meanwhile, my unmodified Windows 2003 installation seems to have no
problem with any of this. It boot just fine, showing all 3 controllers.

Suggestions?
   

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