[Gllug] Linux on a box with mixed discs

[Chris Bell]

On Mon 17 May, Ian Northeast wrote:
> 

> 
> You will need something like this in /etc/lilo.conf:
> 
> disk=/dev/sda
>          bios=0x80
> 
> and IIRC the Debian (Woody) installer didn't get it right. I may be 
> misrembering here, I've installed Debian both ways round onto mixed 
> IDE/SCSI machines and I'm sure it got one of them wrong. I think it was 
> this one, which boots off the SCSI.
> 
> Regards, Ian
> 

   I was less bothered about adding a SCSI disc later than ensuring that
everything was given occasional checks and worked correctly on a re-boot.
   I did try Woody on the IDE with additional SCSI drive, and was surprised
when that did not work, then checked that a re-boot did happen OK on another
box which now has an external SCSI tape and buffer disc. The Debian Sarge
Installer team are also looking into a similar report submitted by someone
else about SCSI controllers being correctly recognised but no module loaded.

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Chris Bell

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