Re: Boot off non-BIOS SCSI drive - can I use LILO or SysLinux?

[Frank Copeland <fjc@wossname.apana.org.au>]

Brian wrote:

>	Presumably, I cannot use LILO to dual-boot the machine (after all,  
>how would the machine let LILO see the partition with the kernel?).  Up to  
>now, I have been booting off of a floppy, and that is torture.

Have you actually tried LILO? I have a SCSI-only box that the BIOS thinks
has no disks at all (there isn't even a floppy drive) and it boots quite
happily from the SCSI root disk. The only gotcha was that I had to put the
"linear" option in /etc/lilo.conf, but you may not find that necessary.

Frank