AIC-7870 boot troubles

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 cullen at helios.dhs.org wrote:

> I have a server case, quad pentium 166 that I just aquired, and I can't
> get it to boot a scsi hard drive.  It has a raid setup, but I am not using
> raid devices, just normal scsi hard drive, a 4.5 gig seagate.  I don't
> know what I have to setup to get it to boot one of the scsi devices, it
> detects them, I can access them under linux, but I just can't get the bios
> to boot them.  Any help would be appreciated!  Thanks.

Without knowing the particular hardware, is there any chance that the raid
controller is configured to drive a raid setup? In that case it may very
well refuse to boot when only a single device is present. 

Mads

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