Hello Debianists! I've gotten a potato production system up and running, everything works quite fine, but since the scsi-drive was malfunctioning, I used an IDE-drive to set up the machine.
NOW I have my scsi UW2 drive and intend to use it, so I wish to move everything to the new drive, but I can't get that damn compaq thing to boot from the scsi-drive. Though I can access it , so its not the kernel-support for it that causes problems. Its just, that the thing won't boot from the scsi-drive, when unplugging the IDE, it just shows LI though in my opinion it shuld at least try booting the kernel from the /boot partition... I followed the instructions I found on setting up a proliant for use with linux. It tells to run the SmartStart-stuff to install a system partition on the drive, and to make /dev/sda1 the /boot, mark it bootable and install lilo on it's PBR, after the normal system-installation has been done. Thing is: I don't want a new install. I wish to move my system. Instructions are AFAIR for redhat -but that shouldn't be the actual problem :) Created a /boot partition on sda1 ext2 Ran lilo with boot=/dev/sda1 root=/dev/hda2 for the proper image and it still boots from IDE-drive. -shouldn't the SCSI-drives have the priority? BIOS just offers the boot-selections CDROM, Floppy, HARDDISK (C:) Anyone having experience with this? Please help! -What were the steps you took? -I hope this saying about the knowledge on how a linux system was set up has not degraded too badly in at least one of your heads :) Thanks, Gerald.
