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Re: post-4.0 install, SCSI HD not found
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Smith)
Thu Nov 7 22:05:51 1996
Date: 8 Nov 1996 03:43:11 -0000
From: Eric Smith <eric@brouhaha.com>
To: Morgan Fletcher <morgan@geoworks.com>
CC: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-reply-to: <rv4tj1be0d.fsf@raindog.geoworks.com> (message from Morgan
Fletcher on 07 Nov 1996 16:56:50 -0800)
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Morgan Fletcher <morgan@geoworks.com>
> I just installed 4.0 on my PC at work. It's got an Adaptec 1515 SCSI card,
> which (I guess) doesn't have a BIOS. It can't be auto-probed and the kernel
> needs to be fed a couple parameters for the adapter to be recognized.
Lilo uses the BIOS to load the kernel from the disk. If there is no
SCSI BIOS, it won't be able to load the kernel from a SCSI device. You'll
have to boot the kernel from a floppy (with or without Lilo).
Cheers,
Eric
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