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
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