Chris....if your bios supports scsi booting it'll have an entry
in the part of the cmos set-up where you set what device to boot
the system. But your scsi card has to have a bios that allows
for booting too.
Alan
"J. Hartzelbuck" wrote:
>
> David Novick wrote:
>
> > Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> > >
> > > Chris....it sounds like a problem I had with one machine i was
> > > trying to install mdk 7.0 on. I swapped out the cdrom drive in
> > > that computer with another drive and that solved the problem.
> > >
> >
> > similar problem with similar solution.
>
> Thanks very much. I was afraid of something like that!
>
> Does anyone know if it is possible to boot from a SCSI CD-ROM? I have a
> SCSI burner that might work better, but I'm not sure how to get it to be
>
> recognized by the BIOS.
> >
> > If you check the different screens when installing, you
> > can get some more information (ctrl-alt-F3 and ctrl-alt-F4)
> > and see what's going on.
> >
> Upon clicking ctrl-alt F3 I get:
> * not found
>
> * Databook TCIC-2 probe:
> * not found
> then on line 19 I get:
> * symlink /tmp/stage2 failed
>
> Upon clicking ctrl-alt F4 I get:
> on line 18:
> <4> ATAPI device hdd:
> <4> Error:unit Attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
> <4>Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred -- (asc=0x29,
> ascq=0x00)
>
> Does this help anyone figure out if there is any way short of a new
> drive?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Chris
