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I need to use a windows 98 cdrom to boot my linux system... why?
Hi all,
I'm having an annoying problem with one of my (entirely SCSI) linux systems. It broke down a little while ago due to a motherboard failure which was recently replaced (original motherboard was an abit be6II, new one's a gigabyte 6xbc) both are slot 1 pentium 3.
Originally the system had a generic ultra scsi (initio kernel driver) card in it. but i've also tried a dual channel ncr based card (both worked in the original motherboard).
Moving right along, i tried both of the above cards in the motherboard, and neither boots (after changing the appropriate settings in the BIOS).
So i figured i'd get the latest firmware and flash it.. I run off and find a windows 98 boot disk (so i can get to dos and do the firmware upgrade), change the machine so it boots off the cdrom and wander off. When i come back, the system has booted into linux just fine (to my surprise).
What i found is that when the win98 cdrom boots, the first question it asks is "1) boot from harddisk 2) boot from cdrom" which has a default of 1 and a 30 second timeout.
Now, if i choose 1 the machine boots my (scsi) root disk and linux is fine, but if i change the bios to boot off the scsi hard drive it just doesnt seem to be able to handle it. It does actually access the hard disk (i can see that) but doesnt seem to be able to read any boot information...
Anyone got any suggestions? booting linux from a windows 98 cdrom is just WRONG...
my linux config:
kernel: 2.4.9
cpu: pIII 450/100
mem: 256Meg
lilo verion: 21.4-4
disks: 1x2gig scsi (root) 10x9gig scsi (software raid)
my lilo config:
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/sda1
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