Can't access LSI SCSI onboard bios, however Fedora detects & loads proper modules?

[Joerg Battermann]

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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