[Gllug] Debian install from a SCSI CD-R drive

[Chris Bell]

On Sun 29 Dec, rich at annexia.org wrote:

> 
> Actually this server install isn't going very smoothly. It's got
> two 40 GB drives in it - I was planning on RAIDing them together
> for the data storage because I don't trust drives these days. However
> the BIOS is circa '98 and appears to hang when trying to detect
> the drives. I'm not sure if the crash is related to the size of the
> drives or not. Anyway, this is no problem as far as Linux is
> concerned ... except for one 'minor' issue I just realised - I
> can't boot the bloody machine from the hard disk!
> 
> Ho hum.
> 
> Also this motherboard doesn't have a way to boot without someone
> physically pressing the front-panel reset switch. If you just power
> it on then it does nothing. (In fact since I'm running this machine
> completely caseless this involves sitting there with a jumper to
> connect two contacts on the motherboard together for a brief
> period of time). There doesn't appear to be a way to override this
> anywhere. Other motherboards I've seen had a jumper that you could
> set to override this stupid behaviour. Not the ideal thing for a
> server. The motherboard is a J-MARK J-7LXA R2, salvaged of course.
> 
> Rich.
> 
   You could put another small (old?) drive as the first drive to carry a
boot partition, put one of the 40GB drives on each IDE cable, and then RAID
should work better. The choice of instant booting on power-up may be via the
BIOS setup.

-- 
Chris Bell


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