Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Looking for help with kernel options | From | <> | Date | Tue, 30 Apr 96 11:20:23 UTC |
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I'm looking for some help with trying to get past a problem with a SCSI harddrive.
I have a Seagate SCSI drive and I'm using an Adaptec driver and the drive is not being recognized at boot. (I used the scsinet boot image when I installed linux.)
I read in the HOWTO documentation that I might need to force detection using a kernel command line option.
However none of the directions seem to make sense.....
> Boot your system with LILO, and hit one of the alt, control, or > shift keys when it first comes up to get a prompt. LILO > should respond with > > : > > At this prompt, you can select a kernel image to boot, or list > them with ?. Ie > > :? When I boot my system I get a prompt,
LILO:
to which I have options to respond with dos or linux.
I tried starting over and booting off my boot disk (floppy) that I made to see if I could come up with the ":" prompt somehow.
I've gone off the deep end somewhere.
Anyone have any idea how I need to enter my kernel command line options at boot? What constitues "Boot your system with LILO"?
Can I just add the kernel command line options to the /etc/lilo.conf file? If so, where?
-- Thanks,
JT
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