Re: booting sarge from a scsi card that has no bios

["Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>]

On 08/11/2006 08:27 PM, Serena Cantor wrote:
> --- "Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>
> wrote:
>
> > On 08/11/2006 04:06 PM, Serena Cantor wrote:
> > > I have a adaptec AHA-2910B card, but it has no 
> > > bios. I 
> > > boot sarge installation CD and installation went 
> > > smoothly. But after reboot, I can't boot sarge 
> > > because 
> > > scsi card has no bios.
> > >
> > > Can I boot from floppy and use loadlin to boot 
> > > sarge?
> > > Thanks! 
> > Yes. "Man lilo.conf" will show you the options 
> > you'll need to 
> > set up lilo.conf; that's the 
> > hard-but-extremely-flexible way.
> >
> > On Slackware they have a utility called makebootdisk 
> > which 
> > makes it easy. For Debian 3.1, mkrboot, bootcd, 
> > syslinux are 
> > available.
> >
> > You can also boot from the first Sarge installation 
> > CD and 
> > give it the correct parameters to boot your root 
> > partition. 
> > Look in the help menus on the installation CD for 
> > more 
> > information.
> Are you sure sarge installation CD can boot a
> installed system? I try again and again, can't use
> sarge CD to boot sarge on scsi disk. woody's
> installation CD can serve as rescue CD, can sarge CD
> do it?
>
> My scsi card is AHA-2910B, which use aic7xxx module.
> Can you tell me boot parameters that use with sarge
> CD?

I had thought that the Debian CD could be used as a rescue CD 
easily. Evidently I was wrong.

The file
/usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-dead-lilo

suggests that the Debian install CD can be used as a rescue 
CD. Serena, as you said, that does not apply to Debian 3.1.

The weird thing is that your SCSI host adapter is recognized. 
All that needs to be done is to tell the initrd what modules 
to load before the root partition is mounted, but I don't see 
how that can be done from the kernel command line.

Does anyone know how the Debian 3.1 install CD can be 
shoe-horned into a rescue CD?