Can't boot fedora on a pure SCSI system

[Allan Metts]

Hi Bob (and everyone else),

Thanks for your response.  I see now that my original post wasn't 
completely clear.  When I say "it won't boot", I mean "I can't even get to 
the boot loader", so /var/log/messages won't have anything useful for 
us.  I''ve mucked around extensively with both the motherboard and SCSI 
card BIOS settings, and nothing I do seems to get this machine to wake up 
on the first SCSI drive.

I can, however, boot into "linux rescue" -- even though this requires 
booting from the same SCSI controller.  I wasn't able to create a boot 
floppy -- Fedora's install said my kernel image would be too big.

Motherboard is a SuperMicro P6DBE (440BX Chipset).  SCSI controller is an 
Adaptec "Array1000" (model number AAA-133U2).

Thanks in advance,

A-----


At 03:44 AM 12/7/2003, you wrote:
>On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 19:46:57 -0500, Allan Metts <ametts2 at mindspring.com> 
>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.
>
>       We need more info - What type motherboard (440GX ?), SCSI 
> controller (Adaptec/built-in ?). Where does it fail on boot? What does 
> /var/log/messages say about errors? - I presume you tried to boot again 
> with the boot CD using "linux rescue". Did you try the boot floppy you 
> created when you installed?