Many thanks to both Anthony Richardson and Nathan Norman for pointers to the right place to resolve my boot problem. An additional question would be "what else do I need to worry about?" Clearly, I will need to redo LILO, since the disk order will have changed. Devices listed in fstab may also need fixing. Is there anything else that needs changing?
Thanks again, --- Bob McGowan i'm: bob dot mcgowan at artecon dot com > -----Original Message----- > From: Nathan E Norman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 17, 1998 8:55 AM > To: Bob McGowan > Cc: Debian Users (E-mail) > Subject: Re: dual boot hardware problem > > > On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Bob McGowan wrote: > > [ snip ] > > : But Debian sees the BusLogic card first and the Adaptec > second and so > : reverses the "boot order". I have searched under the > general topic of > : dual boot in the mail list archives but have not seen anything > : referencing this type of problem. > > Ah yes, this is so fun. I had the same problem with an Adaptec 2940 > that Linux saw as the first adaptor, but BIOS saw as the > second adaptor > and booted off the NCR 53c810 instead. > > The fix isn't trivial, but it's not too bad. You need kernel > source, of > course. > > Once you've got your kernel source ready to go, cd to the > ./drivers/scsi > directory, and edit the file "hosts.c". You need to edit the > builtin_scsi_hosts array ... the beginning of the definition looks > something like this (I've got 2.0.35 kernel source) > > static Scsi_Host_Template builtin_scsi_hosts[] = > { > #ifdef CONFIG_AMIGA > #ifdef CONFIG_A3000_SCSI > A3000_SCSI, > ... > > You need to find the #ifdef statement for the Buslogic card > and move it > AFTER the #ifdef statement for the appropriate Adaptec card. > I told you > it was fun :) > > There may be an easier way to do this with boot parameters or > something, > but I never figured it out. If someone knows, please enlighten us! > > -- > Nathan Norman > MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net > finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) > >
