Re: booting from SCSI
:-> "brian" == brian moore <bem@cmc.net> writes:
> You will have to convince LILO of it.
:-)
>> From my lilo.conf (which does much the same thing... the IDE drive is
> for mp3s and my archived debs):
> | disk = /dev/sda
> | bios = 0x80
this was quite complicated to sort out, but it was an important part
of the solution.
> Basically, the BIOS numbers drives starting at 0x80 (and perhaps only
> supporting that one -- depends on the bios), and traditionally the 0x80
> is the first IDE drive... but with scsi it gets more complex since the
> SCSI BIOS remaps stuff around, so LILO gets it wrong unless you tell
> it specifically to use drive 0x80.
All is working now, the bios sets the SCSI disk as boot disk (it's an
award bios, if that can matter), then I put lilo on sda instead of
sda2 as it was before. Plus I have the bios = 0x80 stuff to tell lilo
that the scsi disk is the first one, and I put sdb and hdb as
inaccessible as they are removable and the could well be absent.
A bit intricated but works
Pf
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