(solved)Re: booting sarge from a scsi card that has no bios
I think loadlin.exe can boot sarge. During
installation, open a console, copy vmlinuz and initrd
to a dos partition, and reboot to dos to run loadlin.
It should work. Thanks anyway!
--- "Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> >>
> > 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?
>
>
>
>
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