Booting FC from SCSI using NTLDR

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Jan 24 18:12:51 UTC 2006


Vicki Walsh wrote:
> After managing to set up Fedora on a Linux partition and boot using
> NTLDR to GRUB I want to go ahead and boot Fedora from a removable SCSI
> hard drive. I installed GRUB to the boot sector of the SCSI drive
> (root(hd1,0) setup (hd1,0)) then copied the first 512 to a .lnx file.
> I've added this to the boot.ini file and now NTLDR comes up with an
> option for windows, an option to boot to fedora on the Linux partion of
> the IDE drive and an option to boot the Fedora installed on the
> removable SCSI drive. When I select the last option I just get GRUB _
> and then it hangs. I'm following the same procedure for what I did when
> setting to boot from the Linux partition and that worked fine. What am I
> doing wrong now?
>  
> (I also tried grub-install --root-directory=\boot hd1
> Thanks,
>  
> Vicki
>  
> /boot partition is on the sda1 partition
> 
Can the BIOS read the SCSI drive? If not, then Grub will have
problems loading the second stage loader from the SCSI drive,
as well as loading the kernel. You may be forced to put the /boot
partition on the IDE drive.

I have run into this when using a SCSI card that did not have an
onboard BIOS and was not supported by the MB BIOS. I still have a
couple of these cards - they worked fine with the ASUS MBs boards
that had BIOS support for them, but I can not boot from then is the
newer MBs I have.

Mikkel
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