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SubjectRe: LILO + VERY big SCSI HD
On Sun, 31 May 1998, Philip Edelbrock wrote:

#I've got a 25+Gig SCSI harddrive (actually, it is an external Raid box
#which 'emulates' a single drive of id=0) and I'm trying the impossible
#task of installing LILO on it. I put the root partition as the first
#partition (500MB as sda1) and was able to get everything working but I'm
#still stuck with a kernel on a floppy to boot. I've tried 'lilo -l' but I
#still get this when I attempt to boot off the SCSI drive:

Not bad. One of my primary X servers has a similar setup. 40G RAID0 stack.
So here's the easy solution.

Go out. Spend another $100 or so. Get the smallest internal SCSI HDD you
can. Speed and size are NOT important, although it SHOULD be less than 9G.

That's your new sda. The stack becomes sdb. sda is boot, stack holds
EVERYTHING else. It may sound like a silly and non-cost-effective way, but
in all honesty, it's the EASIEST. Lilo was NOT built for RAID stacks. If
you've got a 25+G RAID stack, taht tells me that in all likelyhood, this
is a pretty important box. So shell out the extra cash, and take the
SIMPLE solution. You won't regret it one bit. Hacking bootloaders is
always a bitch. ;)

-Phil R. Jaenke (kernel@nls.net / prj@nls.net)
TheGuyInCharge(tm), Ketyra Designs - We get paid to break stuff :)
Linux pkrea.ketyra.INT 2.0.33 #15 Sat Apr 18 00:40:21 EDT 1998 i586
Linux eiterra.nls.net 2.1.98 #15 Fri May 1 18:21:00 EDT 1998 i586
- Linus says for 'brave people only.' I say 'keep a backup.' - :)
! I reserve the right to bill spammers for my time and disk space !


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