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SCSI ZIP & LILO problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Rumball)
Fri Sep 12 15:59:49 1997
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 09:36:46 -0400
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: John Rumball <rumbalj@gov.on.ca>
Hello,
Thank you for reading this.
I am having a problem booting Linux (SW 2.0.29) when I add a SCSI Zip
drive to the end of my external SCSI chain. At bootup, when LILO begins to
appear, all I get is the first "L" in LILO and then the system hangs.
Linux was originally installed WITHOUT the Zip drive in the loop because
of other problems I was having with my conrtoller. I *thought* I could
just add the Zip drive after Linux was installed but it looks like I was
wrong.
Below is a diagram of my SCSI chain. Perhaps it will shed some light on
my problem.
Controller (AHA-2920) ID=7 ------internal-----> Seagate HD (ST31230N) ID=6
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external
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V
Chinon CD-ROM (CDX-535) ID=0
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V
Zip ID=5
What I *think* is happening is that at bootup, LILO is looking for
/etc/lilo.conf on /dev/sda (which is *supposed* to be the internal HD), but
now with the ZIP drive installed, /dev/sda must be pointing at either my
CD-ROM drive or the ZIP, therefor never finding lilo.conf.
My question is, "How do I fix this so that I can easily add/remove the
ZIP drive from the chain without having these bootup problems?"
Any and all advise would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
John
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John Rumball, District Systems Officer
Ministry of Natural Resources rumbalj@gov.on.ca
Sudbury,ON.Canada
