Alvin Oga said: > did you make a boot floppy w/ the same kernel you're using in lilo.conf > - try using syslinux to make your boot floppy > http://www.Linux-Consulting.com/Boot/ > ( see the Boot.syslinux section )
yep made a boot floppy, but made it manually, the system pukes when it tries to load the scsi driver. lots of bus timeouts, and eventually just hangs. Tried 2 different aic7xxx drivers, and 3-4 different kernel configs(based on 2.4.20). > you do NOT install lilo into each disk separately, as if it was separate > disks but if disk 1 fails, there is no bootloader on disk 2 ..so I need some sort of bootloader on disk 2 if I am to try to boot this way. Unless I can get a workin boot disk. > to boot a scsi device...you will invariably need to use initrd to > install your scsi driver modules unless it is compiled into your kernel yep, driver compiled in the kernel, took a while to configure a kernel small enough! 2.4.x is huge! > use the /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19 or whatever it is you used to boot normally I could try that, last time I tried(actually tried with 'make bzdisk' it failed). But I sorta expect it to fail since the driver is the same(I compiled my boot disk against the same tree I compiled my normal kernel from). my bootdisk is a custom one, with lilo and the kernel. There's another way in debian to make a bootdisk(I think maybe it was the SYSLINUX as you mentioned), but last time I tried this, I could not figure out how to pass command line options to the kernel(e.g. different root, or init=/bin/bash) which made the disk very limited in it's usefulness it takes a while to load LILO onto the floppy but it does work. Takes forever to boot too, about 3 mintues to load the kernel from floppy. thanks again nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]