Brandon Mitchell wrote: > > > > Did you check the jumpersettings at the disks? > > > You have to tell a haddisk, whether it's a slave or the primary disk. > > > Only primary disks can be bootable. > > > > This is something I was wondering about (I'm new to PCs and Linux): > > BIOS doesn't show any information about master/slave disks. I played > > around with the setup but with no result. > > > > I've got an ASUSTEK P2B-S mothercard with Ultra-2 SCSI contoller (SCSI > > storage > > controller: Adaptec AIC-7890). (in some postings I saw a formatted > > description of the > > hardware configuration, is that obtained by a command or from some > > file?) > > Looks like you have a SCSI only system (no IDE), which is nice (wish I had > one). I believe SCSI cards have their own bios thing for booting, but > you'll need to look at the booting messages to figure out how to get into > it. On pc's, they are usually made with cheap parts, which means IDE. > IDE can only have 2 drives per ide interface (master and slave) (systems > now-a-days how two interfaces, making a max of 4 ide drives). SCSI > doesn't have any of these restrictions, but it probably won't show up in > your normal bios unless the scsi controller is built into the motherboard.
That's right: I've got a SCSI control utility which I can run during startup, it allows me to determine the disk to boot from. I have Windows NT on disk 0 and Linux on disk 1, setting the id to 1 seems to start booting from the second hard disk but then it hangs after printing LI. I still don't know if the problem is due to my actual configuration: file systems are mounted from /dev/sdb* and I'm not quite sure if I have to and how to change this: I've tried various LILO configurations with /dev/sd[ab] for boot and root but none seems to work. *-- Mamoun ALISSALI LIUM Tel: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 47 UNIVERSITE DU MAINE Fax: (33-2) -02-43 83 38 68 Avenue Olivier Messiaen E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 72085 LE MANS CEDEX 9 http://www-ic2.univ-lemans.fr/~alissali
