On Mon, 2001-10-15 at 09:15, Gerald Richter wrote: > > Hello Debianists! > > I've gotten a potato production system up and running, everything works > quite fine, but since the scsi-drive was malfunctioning, I used an > IDE-drive to set up the machine. > > NOW I have my scsi UW2 drive and intend to use it, so I wish to move > everything to the new drive, but I can't get that damn compaq thing to > boot from the scsi-drive. Though I can access it , so its not the > kernel-support for it that causes problems. Its just, that the thing > won't boot from the scsi-drive, when unplugging the IDE, it just shows > > LI > > though in my opinion it shuld at least try booting the kernel from the > /boot partition... > > I followed the instructions I found on setting up a proliant for use > with linux. It tells to run the SmartStart-stuff to install a system > partition on the drive, and to make /dev/sda1 the /boot, mark it > bootable and install lilo on it's PBR, after the normal > system-installation has been done. > > Thing is: I don't want a new install. I wish to move my system. > Instructions are AFAIR for redhat -but that shouldn't be the actual > problem :) > > Created a /boot partition on sda1 ext2 > Ran lilo with boot=/dev/sda1 root=/dev/hda2 for the proper image > and it still boots from IDE-drive. -shouldn't the SCSI-drives have the > priority? > BIOS just offers the boot-selections CDROM, Floppy, HARDDISK (C:) > > > Anyone having experience with this? Please help! > -What were the steps you took? > -I hope this saying about the knowledge on how a linux system was set up has > not degraded too badly in at least one of your heads :)
I had a similar experience moving from one ide drive to another after removing the first boot drive. I eventually had to make a boot floppy and boot the system normally so I could have the normal boot drive removed and then rerun lilo on the new "first" drive. After that, I didn't have any problems booting from the new drive. Perhaps that will work for you. You could also try to remove the bootable flag from the IDE drive and ensure that the SCSI-BIOS is loaded for the boot drive so you can boot from it. If it doesn't work still, at least you already have that boot floppy made ;>. --mike
