scsi & lilo

[Armand]

Hi Nathan,

You're probably missing the initrd or sometimes called ramdisk.

You either need to (1) mkinitrd and have ramdisk support, usually
already built in as a module:

This how-to on initrd forgot to include the ramdisk module
but it might give you the general idea:
http://linux.nf/scsboot.html

or (2) just build scsi support into the kernel with the low level
scsi device driver for your particular controler, in my case aic7xxx
 
If you mkinitrd... edit lilo.conf to reflect it like:

  image  = /boot/vmlinuz_2.4.4
  label  = linux
  root   = /dev/sda1
  initrd = /boot/initrd_2.4.4

and then run lilo.

Also some BIOS's won't boot from /dev/sdb so make sure you are trying
to boot /dev/sda

You might need to do some reading as well.

HTH,
Armand

Nathan England wrote:
> 
> This sounds like a good time to ask.
> I just built a dual PIII 650 scsi system.
> My motherboard is ide, but has the option to use a scsi device to boot.
> I have an ide cdrom on hdc and an ide zip on hdd.
> I have an advansys card in the machine and two IBM 9 gb scsi drives.
> 
> When it boots it sees everything just fine, but when lilo kicks in, it
> hangs on L then repeats 80 80 80
> or L BB BB BB
> 
> And sometimes it will go all the way to LILO and when I select the
> kernel to load it will go
> LILO loading slack
> 
> and that's it..  no ... after the slack or anything.
> If I use a floppy it's fine.
> 
> I figured being BB or 80 it might be a bad drive or something, so I
> switched the drives, and re installed the system..
> 
> Same thing.  It's completely random.  Sometimes I get LILO other times
> it doesn't make it and dies somewhere..
> 
> With IDE you can do bios=0x81 or something, but with scsi, and being a
> scsi card not on the mobo, I'm lost.  Are there any special lines I can
> tack into lilo to do something?
> I think my lilo.conf is something like this
> 
> boot = /dev/sda
> vga = normal
> 
> image = /vmlinuz
>   root = /dev/sda1
>   label = slack
>   read-only
> 
> That's all I need for ide.. Is there something different with scsi?
> 
> nathan
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