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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

Using my 2.4.31 scsi kernel with BL2 ramdisk or BL3 loop


Uncompressing linux ...
Ok, booting the kernel


After this I eventually power off.

I can't use 2-floppy BL3 because it has no scsi support.

I need some kernel with scsi support to mount the linux ext2 partitions on 
the scsi drive and copy BL3 and BL2 to them.

I have booted to BL on scsi with the scsi 2.4.31 kernel, from a DOS 
partition on an IDE drive (loadlin).  Why can't I boot from a DOS 
partition on scsi drive with the same scsi kernel?

This is a nice Compaq 400MHz computer with perfect Xvesa-FB ATI RAGE LT 
Pro video, and two ISA slots.  It came with a scsi card that has a 
cable running from it to the board to a spot marked SCSI, and DOS and 
win98 are working on the scsi drive (8GB).  We had to reinstall Win98 
after shrinking the partition with PQMAGIC (lots of file system and 
directory problems).  Works fine now.

The computer complains if we put in an IDE drive.  Wants a compaq 
diagnostic diskette.  (But it does have an IDE CD-ROM drive and we have a 
way to get into CMOS setup).   It might work with parport or zip 
drive linux and a modified version of David's boot disk for that (change 
the kernel - also modules?).

I was thinking of moving the scsi card to my computer where the scsi 
controller died but it appears to be board-specific (I have no place to 
plug in that cable).


Is there something I need to change in baslinux.gz or initrd.gz when 
booting from a scsi drive?

keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org
SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org