[syslinux] Re: grub compatible

Bruce M Beach brucemartinbeach at 21cn.com
Sat Sep 7 04:02:29 PDT 2002


On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, [ISO-8859-1] Henrik Nordström wrote:

> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Bruce M Beach wrote:
>
> > Since there I was some discussion about it I thought I would
> > have a look at it. At the point when it couldn't find a scsi
> > drive I gave up. My problem is that I have 4 scsi drives,
>
> For pretty much any bootloader to work your BIOS needs to find your
> drives. For SCSI drives your SCSI card needs to have a SCSI BIOS that
> installs the drives as bootable drives to your system BIOS.

  I know that the bios gives some recognition to the scsi's because
  during boot you can see it scanning the scsi bus for drives and
  I have booted of a scsi to see if I can do it, but even if it
  were straigthforward to do I still have to config the bios to boot
  that drive. It seems that booting off the floppy is best for me
  since I can tell it the kernel that I working with and give a drive.
  The only problems with floppies is that they are somewhat slow
  and also for 6 months now I have been getting

     warning: kernel is too big for standalone boot from floppy

  which is not quite true but one day will be true. I can fix that
  by running more modules but that introduces more complexity. Its
  unfortunate that syslinux cannot read a e2fs because I find it is
  by far and away the best way to boot.

  Bruce






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