[Gllug] Booting from SCSI CD

[tet at accucard.com]

>I have an LSI Logic SCSI card and for the first time I need to boot off it
>(kernel panic, need to use linuxcare cd). I have tried to set it up to do
>this but with no joy whatsoever. 
>
>I have looked in the BIOS for the card itself and noticed that it has a boot
>option but it is greyed out. Help tells me that I can use it for booting but
>I have no idea how to go about changing the options to make it work .

My guess is that your card doesn't support booting from a SCSI device.
It's quite common for manufacturers to have multiple caards in a range,
some with booting support, and some without. They use the same BIOS in
both, and just grey out the boot option on cards that don't support it.
The help may well be the same on both card types, which is why it claims
to support booting.

Of course, you could look it up in the card specs, to check whether I'm
talking a load of crap here...

Tet


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