[5007] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: Linux using SCSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Werner Kliewer)
Mon Oct 26 20:10:30 1998
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:50:13 CST
To: adolf@ratelindo.co.id
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Werner Kliewer <wkliewer@pangea.ca>
Reply-To: wkliewer@pangea.ca
In-Reply-To: <B1E0C61741C3D111A8E7006097C3B5A4E1C536@WBMAIL>
In article <B1E0C61741C3D111A8E7006097C3B5A4E1C536@WBMAIL>, Adolf Ahmad MS
wrote:
> I just get 'L I" character after install linux on my Computer with spec,
> * Pentium II/333MHz Compaq
> * SCI Hardisk
> * SCSI Adaptec 2940 UW/PCI
>
> i cannot boot to Linux
Other things to look out for include making sure the kernel you are
booting is physically in a place your bios can read. This generally means
your root partition should end within the first 2gb of the hard drive it
is located on.
This is because the bios usually cannot handle reads past the 2gb mark,
and lilo (or almost any boot loader) must use the bios to find and load
the kernel and, for scsi, the initrd image. Once the kernel and initrd
images are loaded, linux does it's own hard drive reads and no longer
needs the bios, so other partitions can go far beyond the 2gb mark.
I have yet to find the description of what LILO means as a progress
indicator during booting, but it is clear from my experience and the
postings of others that each letter displayed is in fact an indication of
some step completed. When it works, it displays so quickly you think it is
just a simple boot prompt, but there is more behind it than that. Must be
in the source.
Werner Kliewer in Winnipeg
Using Virtual Access 4.02
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