RE: Can't boot fedora on a pure SCSI system

Figured out the problem. The SCSI card was configured for RAID 5, and these settings aren't visible from the SCSI card's BIOS. I had to hit the Adaptec web site, RTFM, and download the RAID configuration software which runs from a bootable diskette.

Thanks for the help, everyone....

A-----

At 11:05 AM 12/7/2003, you wrote:

> I have system with nothing but SCSI drives in it.  Fedora installation
> went
> smooth as silk, but the system won't boot after install.  I'm telling
> my
> machine's BIOS to boot from SCSI, and the BIOS is enabled on the
> Adaptec
> SCSI controller.  I was able to boot from a SCSI CDROM to do the
> install.
>
> I checked /etc/grub.conf by booting from the Fedora CD in rescue
> mode.  It
> looked okay to me -- the boot partition is on /dev/sda.
>
> Anyone have any pointers on how I can get this machine booting?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> A----

You say that you have the Adaptec BIOS enabled, but do you have the
Adaptec BIOS configured? Has /dev/hda been made bootable in the Adaptec
BIOS?

Have you verified with fdisk that you partition is marked as bootable?