On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Manuel Antonio Camacho Quesada wrote:
>
> "It all depends". My ISA SCSI cards do not boot. I mean, they require some
> other media to boot (as a floppy or IDE drive) and load the modules. On the
> other hand, PCI SCSI cards are "bootable", so you can use your system fully
> SCSI. I can not assure this is always true, just observations from my boxes.
>
> -Manuel.
>
PCI cards are only bootable if one of two things are true. The card must
have a BIOS on it, or the motherboard BIOS must support the SCSI card.
>
> > Red Hat 6.0, 6.1, 6.2 all booted from my scsi cdrom. What
> > exactly is required
> > in the kernel in order for the cd to boot not only from
> > ide-cdroms but also
> > scsi-cdroms? Do all the scsi modules need to be included in
> > the kernel?
> > Details?
>
To boot from a SCSI CD-ROM requires a BIOS that can boot from the CD-ROM
drive. The kernel doesn't enter into the picture untill the boot loader
is finished. The kernel only needs to be able to read the CD-ROM if that
is the root file system.
Mikkel
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