Help please!

[Stephen Hodgman]

Thanks for the thought anyway.  It has been a bit frustrating trying to sort this out...

On 20 May 2002 at 19:55, Neil Muller wrote:

> Sorry, I didn't read your post closely enough. No excuse, just seeing 
> what I want to see :-[ .
> 
> Neil
> 
> Stephen Hodgman wrote:
> 
> >Well, my CD is IDE and I am not trying to boot from the CD.
> >However, I think the option on the controller is turned off.  Why would it make a 
> >difference for booting from the (scsi) hard disk?
> >
> >On 20 May 2002 at 19:36, Neil Muller wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>Does your scsi card support bootable CDs? Not all cards do.
> >>
> >>Neil
> >>
> >>Stephen Hodgman wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>I have a system with an IDE drive with bootable Debian potato on it. (/dev/hda).
> >>>this disk works fine and I can boot OK.
> >>>I have a SCSI disk /dev/sda which has Potato on it also.  However when I make the 
> >>>scsi disk the boot disk I get "LIL-" and nothing.  Doco suggests running lilo to fix it but 
> >>>I am getting nowhere with that.  This is what I am doing:
> >>>
> >>>1. Boot off /dev/hda and then mount /dev/sda partitions on mnt as:
> >>>/dev/sda3  /mnt
> >>>/dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
> >>>/dev/sda5 /mnt/usr
> >>>/dev/sda6 /mnt/var
> >>>
> >>>I can then "chroot /mnt" and everything works OK so  I can build kernels (bzImage) 
> >>>and then install them with "make install".  this results in /vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinuz-
> >>>2.2.19
> >>>
> >>>I then run lilo with lilo.conf configured as:
> >>>lba32
> >>>boot = /dev/sda
> >>>root = /dev/sda3
> >>>install=/boot/boot.b
> >>>delay=20
> >>>vga=normal
> >>>default=Linux
> >>>image=/vmlinuz
> >>>       label=Linux
> >>>       read-only
> >>>
> >>>image=/vmlinuz.old
> >>>       label=LinuxOLD
> >>>       read-only
> >>>       optional
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>I then reboot, change the scsi disk to be the first boot device and get "LIL-"
> >>>Now, I had this working last week (Grr...) 
> >>>What stupid thing have I done please?  thanks.
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> >>>
> >>>Stephen Hodgman               steve at namsys.com.au
> >>>Namadgi Systems                Ph. +61 2 6285 3460
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> >
> >Stephen Hodgman               steve at namsys.com.au
> >Namadgi Systems                Ph. +61 2 6285 3460
> >Canberra                       Fax +61 2 6285 3459
> >Australia
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> Neologix Pty Ltd
> ABN     89 080 124 965
> www:    http://www.neologix.net
> email:  neil at neologix.net
> mob:    0408 977 976
> office: +61 2 6287 5900
> fax:    +61 2 6287 6911
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Stephen Hodgman               steve at namsys.com.au
Namadgi Systems                Ph. +61 2 6285 3460
Canberra                       Fax +61 2 6285 3459
Australia