compaq proliant 400 scsi-boot problems

[Gerald Richter <richter@oehtb.at>]

Hello Debianists!

I've gotten a potato production system up and running, everything works
quite fine, but since the scsi-drive was malfunctioning, I used an 
IDE-drive to set up the machine.

NOW I have my scsi UW2 drive and intend to use it, so I wish to move
everything to the new drive, but I can't get that damn compaq thing to
boot from the scsi-drive. Though I can access it , so its not the
kernel-support for it that causes problems. Its just, that the thing
won't boot from the scsi-drive, when unplugging the IDE, it just shows

LI

though in my opinion it shuld at least try booting the kernel from the
/boot partition...

I followed the instructions I found on setting up a proliant for use
with linux. It tells to run the SmartStart-stuff to install a system
partition on the drive, and to make /dev/sda1 the /boot, mark it
bootable and install lilo on it's PBR, after the normal
system-installation has been done.

Thing is: I don't want a new install. I wish to move my system.
Instructions are AFAIR for redhat -but that shouldn't be the actual
problem :)

Created a /boot partition on sda1 ext2
Ran lilo with boot=/dev/sda1 root=/dev/hda2 for the proper image
and it still boots from IDE-drive. -shouldn't the SCSI-drives have the
priority? 
BIOS just offers the boot-selections CDROM, Floppy, HARDDISK (C:)


Anyone having experience with this? Please help!
-What were the steps you took?
-I hope this saying about the knowledge on how a linux system was set up has
not degraded too badly in at least one of your heads :)

Thanks,
Gerald.