On 08/11/2006 08:27 PM, Serena Cantor wrote:
--- "Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On 08/11/2006 04:06 PM, Serena Cantor wrote:
I have a adaptec AHA-2910B card, but it has no
bios. I
boot sarge installation CD and installation went
smoothly. But after reboot, I can't boot sarge
because
scsi card has no bios.
Can I boot from floppy and use loadlin to boot
sarge?
Thanks!
Yes. "Man lilo.conf" will show you the options
you'll need to
set up lilo.conf; that's the
hard-but-extremely-flexible way.
On Slackware they have a utility called makebootdisk
which
makes it easy. For Debian 3.1, mkrboot, bootcd,
syslinux are
available.
You can also boot from the first Sarge installation
CD and
give it the correct parameters to boot your root
partition.
Look in the help menus on the installation CD for
more
information.
Are you sure sarge installation CD can boot a
installed system? I try again and again, can't use
sarge CD to boot sarge on scsi disk. woody's
installation CD can serve as rescue CD, can sarge CD
do it?
My scsi card is AHA-2910B, which use aic7xxx module.
Can you tell me boot parameters that use with sarge
CD?
I had thought that the Debian CD could be used as a rescue CD
easily. Evidently I was wrong.
The file
/usr/share/doc/Debian/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-dead-lilo
suggests that the Debian install CD can be used as a rescue
CD. Serena, as you said, that does not apply to Debian 3.1.
The weird thing is that your SCSI host adapter is recognized.
All that needs to be done is to tell the initrd what modules
to load before the root partition is mounted, but I don't see
how that can be done from the kernel command line.
Does anyone know how the Debian 3.1 install CD can be
shoe-horned into a rescue CD?
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