Topic: Boot problem

[Bill]

I have an interesting problem. I have e-smith 5.6 running on a system based on a SCSI drive. I added 2 ide drives that are public storage. When I did this, the system stopped booting from the scsi drive. I can still start the system from floppy.

This same system with the same hardware config was running as a RedHat 9 server. I had to manually edit the grub config to get that system to work. When I look at the grub conf here it looks correct but doesn't work. Below are some of the config files.

Here is the syslinx.cfg:

default mitel
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label mitel
   kernel vmlinuz
   append initrd=initrd.img  root=/dev/sda3

Here is the grub.conf

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda3
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Mitel Networks SME Server (2.4.18-5)
   root (hd0,0)
   kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-5 ro root=/dev/sda3
   initrd /initrd-2.4.18-5.img

What did I miss?

[Ergin Özdemir]

PC BIOS boot IDE drivers first and SCSI drivers later UNLESS you change it. I am not sure if you BIOS can handle that BUT you have to change you boot sequence and tell you BIOS to boot from SCSI driver first.

Good luck.