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<H4 align="center">By James T. Dennis,
<a href="mailto:linux-questions-only@ssc.com">linux-questions-only@ssc.com</a><BR>
Starshine Technical Services,
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<H3><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" alt="(?)" width="50" height="28"
align="left" border="0">Installed on a Secondary SCSI HD:
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<p><strong>From Rick V Smith on 9 Jun 1998</strong></p>
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
alt="(?)" border="0">I have installed linux on my second scsi drive
the swap on a small partition on my first scsi. and lilo on a big mbr for my
win 95. the start of linux went well but when I shut down and went to restart
all that happens is <TT>Li</TT> and the system hang's
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Any Idea's.
<br>Thank's Rick
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<blockquote><img src="../gx/dennis/bbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
alt="(!)" border="0"
>I don't know what you mean by "and like on a big mbr"
--- all MBR's (master boot records) are the same size
on PC's --- one sector!
<br><br>
It sounds like your BIOS can't "see" the 2nd SCSI drive
-- so Lilo can't "see" it either. The easiest solution
would be to install <TT>LOADLIN</TT> into a DOS/Win '96 directory
--- with a copy of your kernel(s). The kernel doesn't
rely on the BIOS to access your drives (since it provide
32 bit native drivers for your SCSI card --- etc) so it
will find its root filesystem with no problem.
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Another think to try is to add the "linear" switch to
your <TT>/etc/lilo.conf</TT> --- and then rebuild the boot block
and boot map using the <TT>/sbin/lilo</TT> command. Read the
lilo man pages and/or look at the lilo "user" and "tech"
<TT>.dvi</TT> files using xdvi (under X Windows) for details.
<br><br>
There may be other settings that you'll have to tweak to
get it working. This is particularly true if you have a
large SCSI drive (my guess is that your second drive is
bigger than 2 Gb -- and your first one isn't). Look in
the CMOS/Setup settings (or whatever your SCSI card
provides) for things that suggest that it is doing something
"fun" to make the large drive "DOS compatible").
<br><br>
Jim,
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<p><strong><img src="../gx/dennis/qbub.gif" height="28" width="50"
alt="(?)" border="0">I found the following line you wrote in a responce to someone else and
this cured my hair loss problem, that probably worked better than Rogain.
Thank's for the time and insight.
<br>Rick
<font color="#003366"><pre>
# The stanza for booting Linux.
image = /vmlinuz # The kernel is in /vmlinuz
label = linux # Give it the name "linux"
root = /dev/hda2 # Use /dev/hda2 as the root
filesystem
vga = ask # Prompt for VGA mode
append = "aha152x=0x340,11,7,1"
# Add this to the boot options,
# for detecting the SCSI controller
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<A HREF="http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.2"
>http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Installation-HOWTO-8.html#ss8.2</A>
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<H5 align="center"><a href="http://www.linuxgazette.com/copying.html"
>Copyright &copy;</a> 1998, James T. Dennis <BR>
Published in <I>Linux Gazette</I> Issue 30 July 1998</H5>
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