Re: booting sarge from a scsi card that has no bios

On 08/11/2006 08:27 PM, Serena Cantor wrote:
--- "Mumia W." <mumia.w.18.spam+nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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