Re: Tekram 390u2w scsi

[Alvin Oga <alvin@Mail.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi marcus

> I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 on my new computer, but after installing the 
> base system and rebooting, it wont boot any linux. Just before it's about to 
> boot, it says "LI", nothing more... And it stays like that forever.

for reference... see /usr/doc/lilo*

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easiest way to (kludge) fix that 

- hope you made a boot floppy during the install...
	- if not...you should always make a boot floppy during install...

not sure if debian has a "rescue disk"...

assuming you can boot linux by some other method...
	( boot floppies )

1.  go into single user mode
2.  dd if=/boot/vmlinuz-whatever-kernel of=/dev/fd0
3.  reboot from floppy and you should be merrily up and running
...

-- assuming that you made /dev/hda1 your / partition...
	and you want to boot /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/sda1

4.  now edit lilo.conf to be something like:
    root# vi /etc/lilo.conf
	boot=/dev/hda
	map=/boot/map
	install=/boot/boot.b
	prompt
	timeout=50
	image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
		label=linux
		root=/dev/hda1
		read-only
    root# lilo

	- if that does not boot what you want...
	use
		boot=/dev/sda	-- depends what you did during install
		boot=/dev/sda1	-- one of those should work...
		boot=/dev/hda
		boot=/dev/hda1
		....
		....
		root=/dev/sda1	===>> that is your debian / partition ??
	
if you do NOT have your 18GB /dev/hda partitions...you should...


have fun linuxing/liloing
alvin

> I have a Tekram DC-390U2W scsi adapter, a IBM U2W 9GB harddisk and dual 
> PIII-450Mhz cpu's... I also have an IDE disk (18GB IBM) which is /dev/hda, 
> maybe that's causing some problems? In the BIOS i've configured that the 
> machine should boot on the SCSI drive.
> 
> It's a NCR 53C895 scsi chip.
> 
> /Marcus
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