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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