Need To Boot From Scsi Hdd

gbrad · 04-11-2003, 11:20 AM

I have a cheap scsi controller with no BIOS. Therefore, it's essentially non-bootable. I'd really like to install all my software onto the scsi hard drive to take advantage of the speed for loading times, etc. Is there anyway with LILO to make it boot from the scsi drive? My distro is suse 8.2. Thanks for your help.

ranger_nemo · 04-11-2003, 11:27 AM

Well, you don't really need to boot from the SCSI... Put a small IDE drive in the box. When you install, put /boot on the IDE, and LILO on the IDE MBR, and the rest of the system on the SCSI. As long as the distro supports the SCSI card, you should be OK.

gbrad · 04-11-2003, 11:29 AM

OK, so if I set the partitions up in SuSE so that the boot loader is on the IDE, it will automatically set it up to refer to the software installed on the scsi root partition? This sounds like I'm wanting to do.

arnold · 04-11-2003, 08:33 PM

if u have a diskette, you can put the lilo boot loader on the diskette
and boot linux from wherever you want.

rnturn · 04-13-2003, 02:27 AM

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Originally posted by ranger_nemo
Well, you don't really need to boot from the SCSI... Put a small IDE drive in the box. When you install, put /boot on the IDE, and LILO on the IDE MBR, and the rest of the system on the SCSI.

I used to have a system at work that had all of Linux on the external SCSI disks. The internal IDE drive was used only for swap and holding the Lilo bootstrap (and a small partition that booted DOS and another for the BIOS -- yes, it was one of those gawdawful Compaqs). It worked fine without having to have any of the OS on the IDE disk.