Re: Booting from SCSI when there is IDE
Hi Russell!
I have three VIA KT-based Duron servers.
One of them has an Adaptec 29160 card wirh an external IDE-to-SCSI (that
means the three 40 GB drives are IDE, but it behaves as if it were a 80
GB (Raid 5) SCSI harddisk) RAID attached to it and two internal IDE
drives (each 20 GB).
When we first installed Debian (2.2r0), we did this into a /boot and a
/ partition on the SCSI drive, while the two internal drives were
attached (each as master on ide 0 and 1).
First, it wouldn´t boot, but the lilo.conf manualpage and an old SUSE
handbook told us, that we had to remap the drives.
Here is what we entered into lilo.conf:
disk = /dev/sda
bios = 0x80
disk = /dev/hda
bios = 0x81
disk = /dev/hdc
bios = 0x82
Boot device (boot = ) was /dev/sda1.
Worked like a breeze, but we now boot from software raid 1 devices on
the two ide disks (boot=/dev/md1, root = /dev/md2). Even this works with
lilo, but only for raid 1.
Russell Coker schrieb:
>
> More than 3 years ago someone filed a bug report that LILO doesn't support
> booting from SCSI drives when there is an IDE drive in the system.
>
> I am not able to test this as I don't own any SCSI devices, and the person
> who originally reported the bug hasn't responded to the last email about the
> issue.
>
> Does anyone here have SCSI and IDE drives? If so can you make it boot from
> SCSI?
>
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