scsi & lilo

[der.hans]

Am 12. Sep, 2001 schwätzte Nathan England so:

> This sounds like a good time to ask.
> I just built a dual PIII 650 scsi system.

New enough that cylinder limits, etc. shouldn't be coming into play.

> 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

Haven't seen probs like this for years :). It used to be listed in the very
large lilo manual. Don't see it for sure in
/usr/share/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz, but maybe that's this:

   0x80   "Disk timeout". The disk or the drive isn't ready. Either the 
    media is bad or the disk isn't spinning. If you're booting from a 
    floppy, you might not have closed the drive door. Otherwise, trying to 
    boot again might help. 

   0xBB   "BIOS error". This shouldn't happen. Try booting again. If the 
    problem persists, removing the COMPACT option or adding/removing LINEAR 
    or LBA32 might help. 

> 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.

Skipping lilo there :).

> 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?

Normally that's all you'd need for scsi as well. Check that there aren't any
other global options. If there aren't try LBA and Linear ( one at a time,
they aren't supposed to work together ).

Also make sure support for your scsi card is either built into the module or
you've setup an initrd if it's being used as a module.

ciao,

der.hans
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