Unable to boot server w/o floppy after install
 

I have 6 HP Proliant DL380 servers and 2 HP Proliant DL320 servers.

All of them to have slackware 9.1 on them (except for one of the DL320 servers for backup purposes etc)

Anyway, after I installed Slackware on the RAID DL380 servers, every time regardless of where I install LILO, it will not reboot itself unless I boot onto the floopy then it boots fine.

Obviously LILO is installed correctly on the floppy disk. How do I make it so I can just have my RAID array as the first boot device and be done with it?

Otherwise it just sits there if I try to boot onto the array.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
-enkrypt3d

"Otherwise it just sits there if I try to boot onto the array."

From this symptom I think that lilo is not installing itself on the MBR when you run the lilo command. If lilo was on the MBR then you would at least get L when you booted.

You could try grub and see if it will install on the MBR correctly.

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Steve, what's grub? I'm assuming its an alternate boot loader...

Is it easy to install and configure?

If you would lend me a hand in setting it up, that'd be great!

A little info about my systems:

Device path to array:

/dev/cciss/c0d0

Oh and also, I have to enable SMP... do u have any idea on how to do this? (it's been a long time since I've done that on my BSD box...)

A step by step would be perfect! (BTW, I did see the step by step on the main forum... I just need to know how to enable SMP really)

PS, also remember that the specs I received from the clients were written by some bulgarian guy who can barely speak english let alone write a tech spec document in plain english. So this is why I'm here =]


Thanks,
enkrypt3d

"Steve, what's grub? I'm assuming its an alternate boot loader... "

grub is a bootloader very similar to lilo. The syntax for grub is enough different from LILO to screw you up unless you have a manual handy. Here is a grub HOWTO:

http://www.geocities.com/cyberkabila/main/grub.htm

So basically what you do is translate /etc/lilo.conf to /boot/grub.conf and then run grub-install which puts grub on the MBR. If you want to go back to lilo you run lilo which puts lilo on the MBR. Whatever you do to /boot/grub.conf or the MBR will not make your boot floppy stop working.

Try:
which grub-install
to see if you have grub installed. If not, download and install it.

As to SMP, I know nothing about turning it on.

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