On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Jim Roland wrote:
> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 21:09:07 -0500 (CDT)
> From: Jim Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Adaptec SCSI (AHA1520B)
>
> After some considerable trouble and time in trying to get the aha152x.s
> kernel image for slackware 3.3 to see the 2GB scsi drive and controller
> in order to just install the OS, I got help with a boot parameter:
> aha152x=0x340,11,1,0
>
> (what does the last 1 and 0 mean?)
I quote from aha152x.c (kernel source, 2.0.35)
--- start ----
LILO COMMAND LINE OPTIONS:
aha152x=<IOPORT>[,<IRQ>[,<SCSI-ID>[,<RECONNECT>[,<PARITY>[,<SYNCHRONOUS>[,<DELAY>
[,<EXT_TRANS]]]]]]]
--- end ---
>
> Here is my problem: I install LILO and go to reboot and the system will
> not reboot. When LILO is configured (part of the install setup), it
> whines about the cylinder being > 1024. I assume this is the kernel image
> where it is probably in a cylinder too large to boot from.
>
No, I think it's because a 2gb hdd has more than 1024 cylinders and
the scsi adapter doesn't have the support for > 1024 cyls enabled. My aic7xxx
has something like this in it's setup. It might however that you place the
kernel over the 1024 cylinder and I don't know if the booting part knows how
to handle > 1024 cyls. A solution would be for you to make partition before
cyl 1024.
> However, I don't even get LILO to come up trying to load the MBR. I can
> get this to work for DOS, but I want the entire drive (which is SCSI 0,
> and is the only HD in the system (I have a IDE CDROM) to be a single linux
> partition (except for a 64MB swap parttition). It would be worthy to note
> that I am not having a problem with the CDROM trying to boot--my BIOS on
> the motherboard does not support CDROM booting (AMI BIOS).
>
If you want to make the whole hdd only linux, you should not have any
problems installing lilo.
> How do I accomplish being able to boot with LILO (not using a floppy--this
> system has to come up very quickly for other servers that depend on it's
> HD for NFS mounts)???
>
To be more certain that it will boot, make 3 partitions. 2 linux
native and 1 linux swap. Let the first linux native partition end at a cyl
lower than 1024.
Andy
