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

[Daniel Herrington]

Thanks, Martin!

The bios=0x80 did the trick.  I didn't even have to get rid of the
"linear" option.  Now I can boot solely from my scsi hard drive,
without an ide disk even in the system.

Regards,
   Daniel


=> Replying to gelfand's message, "RE: [NCLUG] booting from AHA-2940UW & scsi disk only" (Apr 6):
 > If the boot process is really stopping at LI (and not later, but
 > you can't tell because of the screen crud) then my handy-dandy
 > Suse6.1 reference book indicates that
 > 
 >   The second step has been invoked but could not be started.
 > This can be due to a faulty disk geometry or to moving /boot/boot.b
 > without reinstalling LILO.
 > 
 > So, one thing to try is getting rid of the 'linear' option.
 > Another thing to try is to change the bios=0x81 to 0x80 : I know
 > it seems wrong, but try it, since that's what I needed to do
 > to make this kind of setup work.
 > 
 > --MG