RE: Lilo..

["Patrick Ouellette" <pouellet@eng.utoledo.edu>]

I had similar problems with Windows NT and large drives on
2940UW controllers.  The problem appeared to be the wide bus
mode setting  ( I forget the exact wording in the adaptec setup).
If I changed the setting, the machine would not boot from the
drive until I either low level formatted the drive or changed the
setting back.

I eventually took to setting all the options to default, then
enabling the ultra mode, then installing the OS and not touching
the card setup again.  There were four of us working on those
machines, so the simpler we made the setup the less we had to
remember and document.

Pat


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Slootman [mailto:paul@wau.mis.ah.nl]
> Sent: Friday, May 08, 1998 3:07 AM
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Lilo..
>
>
> On Wed 29 Apr 1998, Enrique Zanardi wrote:
>
> > "matthew.r.pavlovich.1" wrote:
> > >I am getting a quirky bug with lilo.  I have a 4gig Wide SCSI
> drive that
> > >is set to scsi id 0.  I can partition the disk, write to the
> disk, read,
> > >mount it as /, but I cannot boot from it (The boot flag is set on the
> > >first primary partition). I have an adaptec 2940UW controller
> w/ 2.0.33.
> > >Lilo runs correctly, and the light flashes on the drive, but at boot it
> > >just hangs..not even a 'Li'.  I was wondering if anyone has
> seen a similar
> > >problem with lilo and large drives, or lilo and adaptec 2940's.  Lilo
> > >works correctly with another hard drive, that is a 2gig and on
> the narrow
> > >bus.
> > >
> >
> > I had the same problem some time ago (Adaptec card, I don't remember the
> > model). I solved it by disabling the "Extended translation mode for big
> > disks" in the adaptec BIOS and adding the "linear" option to
> lilo.config.
> > I hope that helps.
>
> I still saw problems last weekend with mbr.b not being written to
> /dev/sda when installing frozen with the 04-11 boot-floppies. I
> did that by hand "dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=/dev/sda bs=444" and after that I
> could boot from the disk.
>
> And yes, I did answer 'y' to the question "install a boot block" or
> whatever the exact message is.
>
> Note that this only happens on a virgin disk or a disk that otherwise
> doesn't have any remains of a previous installation on it (e.g. dos; the
> dos primary bootstrap also works).
>
>
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