Re: Grub and SCSI

2002-12-23 Thread Dennis Gilmore
Without a bios on the scsi card you will be unable to boot from it. I have a scsi card without a bios which i have a hard drive and a tape drive attached i also have 2 ide drives in the system each on there own channel and i use a ide drive for booting. for grub to know your scsi card is there i

Re: Grub and SCSI

2002-12-23 Thread u4ia
As far as I know, AVA series is not a bootable SCSI card. Often it's being used to attach SCSI peripheral such as scanner, ZIP or other non-bootable device. So, if U try it, it won;t work. Not just Linux but other O/S will not boot if U use this SCSI controller. (Correct me if I'm wrong) Try gett

Re: Grub and SCSI

2002-12-23 Thread A.J. Werkman
I have an AVA 2904. My IDE-drive is a 4Mb flash disk. At the moment I have it formatted ext3 and it holds GRUB, the booting kernel and the initrd of the distro. I had to do that manually, because the installer of RH doesn't accept a boot partition this small. The SCSI is fully functioning under

Re: Grub and SCSI

2002-12-22 Thread u4ia
What kind of SCSI controller do you have ?? and How does Grub recognized all of your harddisk (hd0,hd1...)? What system do U have in your IDE drive ? Can U see / access the SCSI drive from the IDE drive using the system U have on the IDE ? "A.J. Werkman" wrote: > Hello, > > I have a system wit

Grub and SCSI

2002-12-21 Thread A.J. Werkman
Hello, I have a system with an IDE and a SCSI disk. The SCSI controler does not have a bios. I have installed grub on the IDE drive. Now I want to boot a linux kernel image that is on the SCSI disk, but grub doesn't seem to recognize the SCSI disk. Does GRUB need a SCSI bios in order to acce