success with ASUS P2B-S (AIC7890) and hints

[Louis Cheung]

> Finally after the installation, I had the problem to make lilo
> use the MBR of the /dev/sda, it kept telling "not the first disk",

Alex,

Thanks for your hint, I got my Linux up and running with 
Felix's boot disk too. Now I am trying to patch the source
code and re-compile the kernel.  : )
BTW, what's the different between 
	aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre6-2.0.35.patch.gz
	aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre7-2.0.35.patch.gz
	aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre8-2.0.35.patch.gz
are they all from Doug?

About your problem, it bother me too. But I found a work
around. 
You said "I was able to mount the SCSI-disk from my older IDE-drive."
The problem is your IDE drive, Linux think it is the first disk.
If you want to boot from /dev/sda, than first unplug the IDE cable
from your IDE HDD (disable them under BIOS will NOT do this trick).
Re run lilo, it should not have the problem again.

Louis Cheung.



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