> Well, what hard drive is set as the boot device? You want LILO on this > device, not the device where you installed Linux. (IE, if you installed > Linux on hdb1, you want lilo to be installed on hda.) I tried various things when putting it to a hard disk. One thing that I didn't see, which I remember from putting Slackware on my laptop, is it never asked me which drive I wanted to setup as bootable. Where do I designate this when dealing with multiple drives? > > Linux will install and run from just about anywhere, but you have to install > LILO on that first hard drive (and not the first partition on the first hard > drive!) > I tried different partitions to help distribute the load: /var on /dev/sda2, swap on /sda1, /home on /dev/hdb1, and so on. I wasn't sure if this was causing the boot problems or not. Is there a problem with having a partition setup like this? > As for the scsi problems, check and make sure your scsi drivers are loading. > If you're booting off SCSI, your SCSI drivers must be compiled in to the > kernel and not loaded as modules. Typing 'dmesg | less' should display the > information you need to see if your SCSI card is detected when Linux boots. > Will have to check more on this later. I thought that the scsi drivers were loading. Slackware asked me which kernel I wanted to use to boot. I told it to use the boot disk (with scsi card modules on it: aic7xxx.s). Thought that might have done it. I also said for it to load the scsi things on setup. When looking at the fstab file, I noticed that my floppy, cd-rom, and scsi HDD weren't listed in there.