Re: [OT] Boot Loader that Support boot from hdb

[Matteo Centonza <matteo@xxxxxx>]

Hi,

> Does anyone know a boot loader that support boot from hdb and with xfs
> support? Lilo doesn't work, it wrote LI 04 04 04 04 and so on since I
> reboot the system. TIA

could depend on the fact that lilo isn't able to figure out the bios 
setup sequence. So from lilo.conf(5):

[snip]

       disk=device-name
              Defines  non-standard  parameters for the specified
              disk.  See section "Disk geometry" of user.tex  for
              details.   Especially useful is the `bios=' parame-
              ter.  The BIOS numbers your disks 0x80, 0x81,  etc.
              and  it  is  impossible  to decide which Linux disk
              corresponds to which BIOS disk (since this  depends
              on  the BIOS setup, and on the type of BIOS), so if
              you have an unusual setup you  need  to  state  the
              correspondence  between Linux disks and BIOS disks.
              For example,

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

              would say that your SCSI disk  is  the  first  BIOS
              disk,  and  your  (primary  master) IDE disk is the
              second BIOS disk.

[snip]

Try setting:

disk=/dev/hdb
bios=0x81


or use grub.

Ciao,

-m