Re: booting from SCSI
:-> "Oki" == Oki DZ <litbang@haltek.telkom.net.id> writes:
> Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to boot off a SCSI disk (/dev/sda2 is my root
>> partition) if there is also an IDE disk (/dev/hda[1-5] are present) ?
> All you need is just to install lilo.
this machine has been booting off lilo since 1996
> I have an IDE and a SCSI disk having NT and Linux; I put Linux on the
> SCSI disk and write lilo on the IDE disk. (When I did that I knew that
> it was pretty risky, but it worked fine.)
that's how it used to work until last week
> If your lilo doesn't work properly, just use a floppy to boot. What you
> need to do is to copy your current kernel (of course, this assuming that
> your Linux already runs) and use rdev to let the kernel know where the
> root partition resides:
> dd if=/vmlinuz of=/dev/fd0
> rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/sda2
> rdev -R /dev/fd0 1
> then reboot the machine.
booting from the floppy is not what I want. The machine should work
unattended and reliably without having to depend from a floppy
>> The ide disk does not have bootable partitions but it has lilo on it
>> because I can't get the system to boot off the scsi disk directly.
>>
>> Also, inserting/removing an IDE removable hd confuses LILO.
> I believe that you have to reinstal lilo if you removing/adding disks.
still, this is not the intended behaviour. Before I changed
motherboard I could easily boot with lilo off the ide disk with or
without the removable ide.
> Oki
Anyway, I've solved the problem. I have lilo on the MBR of the SCSI
disk now, instead of the boot sector of the active partition. Now it
works.
Pf
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