Can't access LSI SCSI onboard bios, however Fedora detects & loads proper modules?
Joerg Battermann
jb at justbe.com
Thu Feb 19 20:37:08 UTC 2004
well according to the tyan support and the manual, it does support
booting etc :\
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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