boot problems

[Daniel Spratlen <spratlen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello xfsers,
    First off, thank you for your hard and wonderful work.  Now for my
question.  I have an IBM x220 server, and I can't get RH7.1-xfs to boot
unless I use the boot disk that I created during the install.  System
configuration is as follows:


# df
Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/part6
                      16606376    463144  16143232   3% /
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target5/lun0/part1
                         99588      5376     94212   6% /boot
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0/part5
                       7521620       144   7521476   1% /opt
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0/part1
                      10236604     29812  10206792   1% /var




There are two scsi disks in this system which both come off of a Adaptec
AIC-7892 scsi adapter.  Here is /proc/scsi/scsi:



# more scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
  Vendor: Seagate  Model: STT20000N        Rev: 7A61
  Type:   Sequential-Access                ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM-PSG  Model: ST318436LW    !# Rev: 3281
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
  Vendor: IBM-PSG  Model: DPSS-318350N  M  Rev: S9AA
  Type:   Direct-Access                    ANSI SCSI revision: 03

I

n the scsi bios, I set the disk with the Id of 6 to be the boot disk.
Here is /proc/scsi/aicxxxx/0:


# more 0
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.2.4/5.2.0
Compile Options:
  TCQ Enabled By Default : Enabled
  AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS     : Enabled

Adapter Configuration:
           SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AIC-7892 Ultra 160/m SCSI host adapter
                           Ultra-160/m LVD/SE Wide Controller at PCI
1/3/0
    PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xeffff000
 Adapter SEEPROM Config: SEEPROM found and used.
      Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled
                    IRQ: 9
                   SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 64,
                         Allocated 93, HW 32, Page 255
             Interrupts: 26199
      BIOS Control Word: 0x58d4
   Adapter Control Word: 0x5c5e
   Extended Translation: Enabled
Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffff
     Ultra Enable Flags: 0x0000
 Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0060
Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0060
Default Tag Queue Depth: 32
    Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0:
      {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0}
    Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0:
      {1,1,1,1,1,32,32,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1}

Statistics:

(scsi0:0:0:0)
  Device using Narrow/Async transfers.
  Transinfo settings: current(0/0/0/3), goal(10/127/0/0),
user(9/127/1/2)
  Total transfers 0 (0 reads and 0 writes)
             < 2K      2K+     4K+     8K+    16K+    32K+    64K+
128K+
   Reads:       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
0
  Writes:       0       0       0       0       0       0       0
0


(scsi0:0:5:0)
  Device using Wide/Sync transfers at 40.0 MByte/sec, offset 31
  Transinfo settings: current(12/31/1/0), goal(12/31/1/0),
user(9/127/1/2)
  Total transfers 17814 (7090 reads and 10724 writes)
             < 2K      2K+     4K+     8K+    16K+    32K+    64K+
128K+
   Reads:     129       0    4633    1280     264     784       0
0
  Writes:    1042     215     361    6227    1185    1694       0
0


(scsi0:0:6:0)
  Device using Wide/Sync transfers at 40.0 MByte/sec, offset 63
  Transinfo settings: current(12/63/1/0), goal(9/127/1/2),
user(9/127/1/2)
  Total transfers 8276 (627 reads and 7649 writes)
             < 2K      2K+     4K+     8K+    16K+    32K+    64K+
128K+
   Reads:      43       0     102     146     146     190       0
0
  Writes:    2856     262    1506    1775     605     645       0
0




And also included, here is my lilo.conf file:



# more lilo.conf
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0
        label=linux
        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.2-SGI_XFS_1.0.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/sda6
        append="ramdisk_size=2500"




I know that this email is long, and has a lot of files attached, and I
apologize for the length, but I thought that I'd provide as much info as
possible.  As I said, I can only boot if I use the boot disk that I
created during the install process.  I made sure that I installed lilo
on the MBA as per the FAQ.  I have the most updated bios available from
IBM.  If I boot with the boot disk, everything works wonderfully, but
I'd like to be able to boot from sda.  The only thing that I can think
of at this moment, is that hda on this box is a cdrom, but I don't think
that this would be a problem.  Upon bootup, the machine looks on the
media as per the boot order in the bios, It checks the scsi drives
first, and then looks on the cdrom, and then the floppy.   This is the
order that the drive lights come on, and also the order that they are
supposed to boot from according to the bios.

TIA,
Daniel Spratlen
spratlen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx