grub & scsi

carpman · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:14 pm Post subject: grub & scsi

Hello i have been trying to get grub to boot from scsi drive. scsi adapter is aic7896.

I get error 23 whichi believe that it means can't find drive after i enter
root (sd0,0)

i did some research and found that aic78xx may have bug and needs init13 (lba) disabling, i did this but still no joy.

anyone know how i can get it to work? or maybe use another boot loader.

cheers

rac · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 9:19 pm Post subject:

How large is this partition? Maybe it is past the 1024-cylinder limit that lack of LBA is forcing upon you, as described in http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-faq.en.html#q14, which is probably where you saw to turn off LBA in the BIOS.
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carpman · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 10:08 pm Post subject:

Soupy · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 9

In grub, you should be doing "root (hd0,0)" even with a SCSI drive; grub enumerates all drives and doesn't distinguish between IDE or SCSI. When in doubt, just use its tab completion. Just type in "root (" and then hit tab.

zhware · Retired Dev Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 23

See http://www.gentoo.org/~zhware/grub.txt
Like Soupy told you there is no SCSI or IDE for grub. Just hd*, fd* etc.

carpman · Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2002 3:22 pm Post subject:

thanks for info i will try that