i thought about making a boot disk... and leaving it in the server all the time.. to boot from there... however fedora complains that the modules needed my system are altogether too big for a boot disk.. :\
-j
Alexander Dalloz said the following on 2/19/2004 9:06 PM:
Am Do, den 19.02.2004 schrieb Joerg Battermann um 20:20:
Hello,
I got a used Tyan HS2567 Motherboard, with an onboard (and in its bios enabled) LSI Scsi controller. However, i never see or can access any lsi setup/bios... it just doesn't show up. there's no jumper on the board that could prevent that, nor anything else.
the machine also has a 3ware card installed, which bios shows/runs just fine during the initial boot phase.
however, when I put in the fc1-cd ... it detects the scsi controller, loads the module.. and shows the one attached 18gig ibm drive.
the problem is, I can't boot from it, because the motherboards own bios, doesn't show the scsi controller/hdd as boot-device.. only the 3ware one.... any idea how I can fix/work around that? I want the 18gig scsi drive to hold the actual linux installation, and only use the raid-5 behind the 3ware card for the /home partition & personal files.
cheers & thanks,
If the motherboard BIOS does not support booting from the SCSI controller there is no way to do so. Many BIOSes have the Symbios (old brand of LSI) inside, others not. If Tyan has no BIOS including the Symbios part for your motherboard, there is no way to boot from the onboard controller.
Alexander
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