On Tue, 29 Feb 2000, John Grant wrote:
The motherboard BIOS has options for booting from "CDROM", "SCSI", "A", "C", "D", and "LS/ZIP". "CDROM" I use on another system with the same BIOS to boot from the IDE CD. "SCSI" used to boot from the HD, but now just gives me the infamous "01 01 01 ..." error from lilo. "A" boots from floppy. "C", "D", etc. aren't applicable.. I don't have a LS or ZIP drive, or a bootable IDE drive in the system.
The SCSI BIOS on many host adapters requires the boot order in the system BIOS to have "A" as the first boot device. The host adapter then will move the bootable CD to "A" and boot off of it if a bootable CD is detected in the drive. I had a bit of trouble getting my Toshiba 32x SCSI CD to boot with my Advansys host adapter till I changed the system boot order to "A" "C" "SCSI" and have not had a proble since
However, I have tried booting from "C" and even with IDE completely disabled I get the LILO error, so your guess is as good as mine as to what the BIOS is _really_ doing. In this case I might expect the system to come back with a message about no bootable drives found, but it's obviously trying to boot from SCSI anyways. (Just once I would like someone to develop a BIOS that I didn't have to threaten and cajole to get it to do what I wanted. :) ) The SCSI BIOS can be told which SCSI id to boot from. I have the CD on ID 0 and the HD on ID 1, but no matter which one I put it on I get the "01 01 ...". FWIW, the BIOS versions are 2.01.0 for the SCSI BIOS and Award 4.51PG for the motherboard's.
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