RE: dual boot hardware problem
Many thanks to both Anthony Richardson and Nathan Norman for pointers
to the right place to resolve my boot problem. An additional question
would be "what else do I need to worry about?" Clearly, I will need to
redo LILO, since the disk order will have changed. Devices listed in
fstab may also need fixing. Is there anything else that needs changing?
Thanks again,
---
Bob McGowan
i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:finn@midco.net]
> Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 8:55 AM
> To: Bob McGowan
> Cc: Debian Users (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: dual boot hardware problem
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Bob McGowan wrote:
>
> [ snip ]
>
> : But Debian sees the BusLogic card first and the Adaptec
> second and so
> : reverses the "boot order". I have searched under the
> general topic of
> : dual boot in the mail list archives but have not seen anything
> : referencing this type of problem.
>
> Ah yes, this is so fun. I had the same problem with an Adaptec 2940
> that Linux saw as the first adaptor, but BIOS saw as the
> second adaptor
> and booted off the NCR 53c810 instead.
>
> The fix isn't trivial, but it's not too bad. You need kernel
> source, of
> course.
>
> Once you've got your kernel source ready to go, cd to the
> ./drivers/scsi
> directory, and edit the file "hosts.c". You need to edit the
> builtin_scsi_hosts array ... the beginning of the definition looks
> something like this (I've got 2.0.35 kernel source)
>
> static Scsi_Host_Template builtin_scsi_hosts[] =
> {
> #ifdef CONFIG_AMIGA
> #ifdef CONFIG_A3000_SCSI
> A3000_SCSI,
> ...
>
> You need to find the #ifdef statement for the Buslogic card
> and move it
> AFTER the #ifdef statement for the appropriate Adaptec card.
> I told you
> it was fun :)
>
> There may be an easier way to do this with boot parameters or
> something,
> but I never figured it out. If someone knows, please enlighten us!
>
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