Re: SCSI boot
#include <hallo.h>
* MJM Wright [Tue, Mar 25 2003, 11:50:50PM]:
> I want a dual system -- not a dual-boot system. The IDE drives contain
> Win 98, with all of the Debian installation on the SCSI drives.
"Dual system"? What exactly is your meaning of this term? Separating to
different harddisks wont work to 100% since they share the boot
sequence.
> I also made a Debian rescue floppy.
Fine. Use that floppy till you fix LILO.
> If I try to boot by setting the first boot device in the CMOS to SCSI. I
> get an L, followed by 01, space, 01, space, ad infinitum.
Known and well documented problem. LILO and BIOS have different ideas
about the logical disk order. Read "man lilo.conf" and comments in
/etc/lilo.conf about disk/bios pairs.
> If I use the rescue floppy, I get a "boot:" prompt. With no key presses
> it loads linux.bin from the floppy, and after about 5 minutes,
> everything loads from the SCSI drive (/dev/sda1).
Fine.
> I have used the Adaptec utility (CTRL A after POST) and as far as I can
> tell it should allow the boot.
>
> I have tried things like:
>
> boot: /vmlinux root=/dev/sda1
Please, read the boot screens. It is "linux.bin root=...".
> Any advice on how to boot directly from the SCSI drive would be very
> much appreciated. Also, please allow for a novice user of Debian.
See lilo.conf
Gruss/Regards,
Eduard.
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Lächerlichkeit, die man von ihm erzählt oder lieset -; aber begeht er
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Gegenwart zu mächtig, und der Mann, erscheinend darin, nur stückweise
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