LILO + VERY big SCSI HD

Philip Edelbrock (phil@Ren.netroedge.com)
Sun, 31 May 1998 17:51:56 -0700 (PDT)


I've got a 25+Gig SCSI harddrive (actually, it is an external Raid box
which 'emulates' a single drive of id=0) and I'm trying the impossible
task of installing LILO on it. I put the root partition as the first
partition (500MB as sda1) and was able to get everything working but I'm
still stuck with a kernel on a floppy to boot. I've tried 'lilo -l' but I
still get this when I attempt to boot off the SCSI drive:

L 01 01 01 01 (... with an infinite # of '01's)

This would seem to imply that it is at least trying to boot the drive, but
an error of '01' is 'Illegal command' if I understand the LILO docs right
(, it also says that it shouldn't happen. ;'). I've got LILO installing
on the Master-Boot record (/dev/sda) and the root partition is marked
bootable (whether needed or not).

I'd really like it to boot off the SCSI Raid for reliability, and so I can
utilize more than 64M of my 256MB Ram w/o trying to hack the kernel.
Breif system profile:

* Dual P2 w/ 440BX (SMP kernel 2.0.33)

* Adaptec 2940UW

* Micronet Datadock 7000 (w/ four 9G modules)

* Redhat 5.0 installation (5.1 installer pukes everytime I try to use it,
but that's a different topic...)

* Here's my latest LILO config (this one was made with QuickInst):

boot = /dev/sda
compact
delay = 5 # optional, for systems that boot very quickly
vga = normal # force sane state
root = current # use "current" root
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = linux

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Phil

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