Hi,

I am trying to install a RH WS3 on one DIY server, and the system board is
Intel server board which has one build in AIC 7899 scsi controller card, the
disk is one Seagate 18G scsi160 HD.

I found I can only boot from the floppy, and the system can't find the boot
disk without the floppy.

Btw, I can see the scsi disk and controller card in win Bios, and I've setup
the scsi disk bootable in the scsi config utility.

Any idea on this ?

Thanks

-- Daniel

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In comp.os.linux.setup Daniel Huang <danielhuang@hotmail.com>:
> Hi,

> I am trying to install a RH WS3 on one DIY server, and the system board is
> Intel server board which has one build in AIC 7899 scsi controller card, t
he
> disk is one Seagate 18G scsi160 HD.

> I found I can only boot from the floppy, and the system can't find the boo
t
> disk without the floppy.

Did you try installing from the update ISO, available through
rhn? Or and issuing "linux expert" at the prompt.

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Daniel Huang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install a RH WS3 on one DIY server, and the system board
> is Intel server board which has one build in AIC 7899 scsi controller
> card, the disk is one Seagate 18G scsi160 HD.
>
> I found I can only boot from the floppy, and the system can't find the
> boot disk without the floppy.
>
> Btw, I can see the scsi disk and controller card in win Bios, and I've
> setup the scsi disk bootable in the scsi config utility.
>
> Any idea on this ?
>
Unfortunately, my machine has two EIDE drives as well as the four SCSI
drives, and the /boot partition is on /dev/hda, so I have no trouble at
all. I run RHEL 3 ES on it, but I doubt the difference between WS and ES
have anything to do with this. It is hard to believe there is anything on
that boot floppy that makes a difference.

BTW: how did you make that boot floppy? The installation procedure for
RHEL 3 ES does not offer to make one, and if I try mkbootdisk, it
complains that it runs out of space. So I make it write an ISO and burn it
to a CD-RW-ROM which has enough room. ;-)

My other machine had only two SCSI hard drives and no IDE drives and it
booted just fine with RHL 6, 6.2, and 7.3, and I did nothing special with
those to make it boot. Since then I installed Fedora Core 2 (did not like
it), and it now runs RHL 9. But it has an EIDE hard drive on there, and
there, too, the /boot partition is on the /dev/hda.

Just what happens when you try to boot from the hard drive? Error
messages, messages in /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg and
/var/log/boot.log


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Hi, David:

You are quite right, I also tried to put in one IDE disk, and put /boot
there, and it worked well. ( I am going to use this as backup plan if boot
from scsi fails.)

RHEL's mkbootdisk can't be held in floppy disk. I used to use redhat 7 on
this machine, it could boot from machine with floppy. But with AS3, I have
to use Cdrom or other removable disk.

As the whole thing happens before the grub was loaded, so I don't think
there will have any log in the OS.

I think it must be some driver issue in the bios or scsi controller config
utility.

I'll keep waiting for more ideas.

Thanks for the reply.

"Jean-David Beyer" <jdbeyer@exit109.com> wrote in message
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> Daniel Huang wrote: 
> Unfortunately, my machine has two EIDE drives as well as the four SCSI
> drives, and the /boot partition is on /dev/hda, so I have no trouble at
> all. I run RHEL 3 ES on it, but I doubt the difference between WS and ES
> have anything to do with this. It is hard to believe there is anything on
> that boot floppy that makes a difference.
>
> BTW: how did you make that boot floppy? The installation procedure for
> RHEL 3 ES does not offer to make one, and if I try mkbootdisk, it
> complains that it runs out of space. So I make it write an ISO and burn it
> to a CD-RW-ROM which has enough room. ;-)
>
> My other machine had only two SCSI hard drives and no IDE drives and it
> booted just fine with RHL 6, 6.2, and 7.3, and I did nothing special with
> those to make it boot. Since then I installed Fedora Core 2 (did not like
> it), and it now runs RHL 9. But it has an EIDE hard drive on there, and
> there, too, the /boot partition is on the /dev/hda.
>
> Just what happens when you try to boot from the hard drive? Error
> messages, messages in /var/log/messages and /var/log/dmesg and
> /var/log/boot.log
>
>
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>

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