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Re: Booting Removeable SCSI HD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Victor Torrico)
Wed Jan 29 12:12:42 1997
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 12:07:19 -0500
From: Victor Torrico <vtorrico@cfw.com>
To: Marty Leisner <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com>
Cc: Linux-SCSI List <linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu>
Marty Leisner wrote:
>
> This may be a problem.
>
> I have a syquest 135 with a adaptec 1522 card.
>
> The 1522 won't boot off removable media.
>
> You could (assuming you have a floppy/hard disk)
> boot the kernel from the other media.
> Have the kernel have the write scsi drivers.
> Then the root device is /dev/sda1 (or whatever).
>
> --
> marty
> leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com
> Member of the League for Programming Freedom
I have the same configuration with two EIDE drives also. I am using the
Syquest and aha152x using the following as the first line in the
lilo.conf file: 'append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1"'. It works fine this way
except that I'm booting from the first EIDE drive.
What I am really trying to do is copy a minimal linux installation to
the Syquest from the EIDE. Then if there is a failure on the EIDE I
would like to be able to copy back to the EIDE and be able to boot the
EIDE of course after first checking the filesystem &
repairing/initializing as required. Not being a wizard in this area I
can use lots of help.
Thanks for the information.
Victor
