[svlug] Booting SCSI - no MBR

[Ray Olszewski]

There is no intrinsic reason why you should need to use DOS first on a
drive. When I built my new Linux-only workstation, using Slackware 3.4, I
used a fresh drive that had never been fdisked under DOS, and I had no
problems. The important difference is that mine is an EIDE drive, not SCSI,
so I'd look there for the explanation.

You don't say if your old 2G drive was EIDE or SCSI. If it was EIDE, you
might try changing boot order to A:, SCSI, C: (or, even safer, SCSI, A:,
C:). I'm pretty sure the C: in the boot-sequence list means C: as reported
in the system BIOS (that is, as EIDE drive), not the SCSI BIOS, so you may
be hanging because the system is trying to boot from a missing EIDE drive.
(I assume you have already removed any old entry for C: from the system
setup menu.)

This is just a guess, though. Hope it helps. Good luck.

At 08:57 AM 11/1/98 -0800, you [Walter Reed] wrote:
>I had an old Quantum 2G drive that finally died on me, so I replaced it
>with a new 9G ultra fast and wide Quantum. My motherboard (an I-Will) has
>the adaptec 7880 chipset onboard. This is the only hard drive in the
>system. The Adaptec Bios reports this drive as C:
>
>BIOS is setup to boot A, then C, then SCSI.
[rest deleted]

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