Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread Jan-Benedict Glaw
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:49:05AM -0500, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote: Hi, I have one issue which requires fix from the linux kernel. Initially i put a SCSI controller and install the OS on the drive connected to it. After installing the OS (on sda), the customer puts another SCSI

RE: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread Venkatesh Ramamurthy
Are your two SCSI controllers handled by the same driver or through different ones? If they're handled by two separate drivers, simply build that one you need to boot off into the kernel and build the other one as a module. [Venkatesh Ramamurthy] Different ones with mutiple

Re: [PATCH, RFC] SCSI cleanups for 2.5

2001-01-16 Thread Frank Zago
Actually, the SCSI INQUIRY command with EVPD bit on and page code 83 should return the VPID of every LU -- this command is used by some SCSI initiators and most multipathing drivers to determine whether the same LU has been accessed through different paths. You can find more details in

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread John Summerfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can the linux kernel be changed in such a way that kernel will look for the actual boot drive and re-order the drives so that mounting can go on in the right order. we need some kind of signature being written in the drive, which the kernel will use for determining

My famous F2513A MO drive ad 2.4.0 kernels

2001-01-16 Thread John Summerfield
I refer only to 640 Mbyte media. I've not tried 230 which I also have. in short, reading is fine. Writing is sh... I have some disk with OS data on them, and I copied one to CD, being very careful I can read the dta from the CD. I then set to convert the disk to ext2, and have had errors

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Michael Meissner wrote: you're forgetting that in /etc/lilo.conf there is a directive called 'append='... all the user has to do is merely add 'append="scsihosts=whatever,whatever"' into their config file and rerun lilo. problem solved That's assuming you are

RE: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread Venkatesh Ramamurthy
When the cards are of different make the order is solely dependent on the order that the drivers are initialized in the kernel. If you have modules enabled, only build the driver for your root device into the kernel image and have the other modular. This lets you control the initialization

Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread Florent Cueto
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Re: Linux not adhering to BIOS Drive boot order?

2001-01-16 Thread Malahal Rao Naineni
Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote: Hi, I have one issue which requires fix from the linux kernel. Initially i put a SCSI controller and install the OS on the drive connected to it. After installing the OS (on sda), the customer puts another SCSI controller. The BIOS for the first controller has