Re: boot knoppix from SCSI CD ROM

From: John Thompson (john_at_starfleet.os2.dhs.org)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 06:07:45 GMT

On 2004-12-27, jimmy_please@yahoo.com <jimmy_please@yahoo.com> wrote:

> John Thompson wrote:
>> On 2004-12-13, jimmy_please@yahoo.com <jimmy_please@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> > My hard disk was corrupted and I've tried to fix with "e2fsck -y".
>> > Then "re-install/repair" with Red Hat 9. It seems to boot and
>> > mount hard disk but no network support and cannot mount floppy.
>> > With knoppix, I can boot it off CD and run entire linux. But I
>> > have SCSI CD ROM, can someone tell me how I can boot knoppix with SCSI?
>>
>> If your SCSI BIOS supports bootable CDROM devices, enable that
>> option. For most Adaptec cards, CTRL-A at boot-up will bring up the card's
>> configuration menus.

> Thx. Specifically, can I create a boot disk from knoppix then use this
> boot system so it knows where (SCSCI CD ROM) to load the knoppix CD?

If the SCSI adaptor's BIOS supports booting from the CDROM, then the
presence of a botable CD in the drive ought to suffice to start the boot
process. The Knoppix .iso image is already bootable; all you need do is
burn it to a CD, place it in the drive and boot. 

-- 
John (john@os2.dhs.org)

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