[nflug] SCSI PCI

Eric Benoit eric at bootz.us
Wed May 23 13:50:17 EDT 2007


hmm no SCSI BIOS, the Host Bus Adapter must be incompatible with my board?

Cyber Source wrote:
> Eric Benoit wrote:
>   
>> but Cyber, I was able to install fedora on the SCSI drive... doesn't
>> that imply that I have a working card?
>>
>> Cyber Source wrote:
>>     
>>> Eric Benoit wrote:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> Correct, GRUB never shows up in the beginning of  a boot, I've told
>>>> the BIOS to boot bootable addon on cards first, there are no IDE Hard
>>>> Drives.  I'm not sure, but is it possible that my board may not
>>>> support booting from PCI, I thought bootable addon cards was meant for
>>>> PCI?
>>>>
>>>> The Host Bus Adapter, the cable, and the SCSI Drive are all compatible
>>>> with each other... that is not the issue.
>>>>
>>>> Eric Benoit wrote:
>>>>    
>>>>         
>>>>> fedora installed it on /dev/sda
>>>>>
>>>>> justin.bennett at dynabrade.com wrote:
>>>>>      
>>>>>           
>>>>>> Where did you install your boot loader when you instelled the OS?
>>>>>> /dev/sda?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If you don't get any bootloader prompt then, either the bios is not
>>>>>> set to look at the scsi card or the bootloader is not installed
>>>>>> where it wants.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>> Justin Bennett
>>>>>> Network Administrator
>>>>>> Dynabrade, Inc.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> *eric at bootz.us*
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>>>>>>
>>>>>> 05/23/2007 10:58 AM
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>>>>>>     Subject
>>>>>>     Re: [nflug] SCSI PCI
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>   
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> BIOS is set to boot bootable addon card
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Quoting justin.bennett at dynabrade.com:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Could be a few things.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Simpilist First.
>>>>>>> Is your PC Bios set to boot from the SCSI controller, then make
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> sure in
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> the scsi Bios is set to boot from the correct scsi drive.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- 
>>>>>>> Justin Bennett
>>>>>>> Network Administrator
>>>>>>> Dynabrade, Inc.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> eric at bootz.us
>>>>>>> Sent by: nflug-bounces at nflug.org
>>>>>>> 05/23/2007 10:39 AM
>>>>>>> Please respond to
>>>>>>> nflug at nflug.org
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>>>>>>> To
>>>>>>> nflug at nflug.org
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>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Subject
>>>>>>> [nflug] SCSI PCI
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi I install a LSI PCI SCSI Host Bus Adapter and a SCSI drive.
>>>>>>> I then installed Fedora on the SCSI drive.
>>>>>>> After install and reboot my screen displays no operating system
>>>>>>>           
>>>>>>>               
>>>>>> found.
>>>>>>        
>>>>>>             
>>>>>>> Do I need to pass special parameters to the kernel for grub? Or is
>>>>>>> there some other step I am missing?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> THanks for your help,
>>>>>>> eric
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>>> Can you at least get to the scsi bios? This would ensure that you at
>>> least have a working card, i.e., no irq problems, etc.. Then check
>>> inside the scsi bios to make sure you can see the drive and have that
>>> set to boot. If you installed to this drive the way it's connected, it
>>> is probably not set to boot the drive, either in your bios or scsi bios.
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> Yes that's why I said what I did at the end. If it booted from a cd to
> do the install and then the install found it obviously and installed to
> it, then it leads me to think your problem is in your bios or scsi bios
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