Can't boot fedora on a pure SCSI system
Michael E. Adams
meadams at gmpexpress.net
Sun Dec 7 16:05:35 UTC 2003
> Hi there--
>
> 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?
Regards,
mea
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