[NCLUG] booting from AHA-2940UW & scsi disk only

[Darren Smith]

If your scsi driver is modular, have you made a new initial ramdisk with 
mkinitrd?  Make sure your driver is listed in your module configuration file 
first (/etc/conf.modules or /etc/modules.conf).

-Darren

On Friday 06 April 2001 00:07, you wrote:
> Martin (or anyone else who might know),
>
> 1. I got my new scsi hard drive installed, got it partitioned as
>    follows (then I formatted it and rsync'ed everything from /dev/hda5
>    over to it, putting the /boot stuff into /dev/sda1 and the rest of
>    / into /dev/sda5):
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2231 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *         1        26    208813+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda2            27      2231  17711662+   5  Extended
> /dev/sda5            27      2190  17382298+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda6          2191      2231    329301   82  Linux swap
>
>
> 2. I mount everything as shown in my /etc/fstab:
>
> /dev/sda1               /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 1
> /dev/sda5               /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
> /dev/hda1               /mnt/hda1               ext2    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda5               /mnt/hda5               ext2    defaults        0 0
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
> /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner    0 0
> none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> /dev/sda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>
>
> 3. I attempt to install lilo on /dev/sda.  Here's my lilo.conf:
>
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> linear
> default=linux-up
> disk=/dev/sda
> bios=0x81
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
>         label=linux-smp
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/sda5
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
>         label=linux-up
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/sda5
>
> 4. /sbin/lilo runs fine, says it's adding linux-up*, and linux-smp.
>    By the way, I set the configuration of the motherboard to boot this
>    order: A,EXT,C (EXT=SCSI).  And I set up the AHA-2940UW to boot
>    from device 0.)
>
> 5. When I reboot the machine, the AHA-2940UW BIOS start-up screen sees
>    the disk, says it's "D: (81h)" (that's why I put bios=0x81 above).
>    It then attempts to boot from the scsi disk, and gives "LI", then
>    the cursor jumps here and there and the printer starts printing the
>    screen (not that that part matters...).
>
> So is there something obvious I'm not doing in my lilo.conf or
>    elsewhere?  I can boot just fine by re-running lilo with this:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> linear
> default=linux-up
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0smp
>         label=linux-smp
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0smp.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/sda5
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
>         label=linux-up
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/sda5
>
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>
> Best Regards,
>    Daniel