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@cjtompsett wrote:

The last portion of the 2300 post shows the Adaptec 7860 detecting the cd-rom drive detected by it. The message " scsi bios NOT installed" is normal because it only detected a cd-rom on that controller. This is all normal.

 

The next message is the " strike f1 to retry boot, f2 for setup utility". The system has hard drives on the Adaptec 7890 but has found no boot partition. It sounds like the Suse install has been corrupted or deleted. You might want to try a repair of the OS."

I'm getting the same message. When I use either my Windows 2000 or Windows XP cds they do not boot. I've upgraded the firmware & bios. So, my options as in possible problems are SCSI cable gone bad or SCSI CD-Rom drive gone bad. I haven't tried jumper clearing yet. I do have Redhat Linux Enterprise Workstation; maybe I should try it to see if it works. But, with that being said, the possible problems are bad cable or bad CD-Rom.

The CTRL A menu has an option as to whether or not the CD will boot.
You may need to change that.

Also the 2300 SCSI cdrom drives are 4x or 8x max sometimes so
NON REAL CDs recorded at 16x or faster dont read or boot properly.

A BAD CDROM DRIVE is also a possibility.

Try making a 4x recorded copy of the cd and see if that boots.

I tried clearing the jumper, I disconnected, inspected the cable and reconnected it; Inspected the pins. Everything is fine. Even changed the power connectors. I even reinstalled the updates to everything. One thing that did work this time was the backplane firmware update. I thought when I first updated it it actually updated it. But it didn't and when I reinstalled it it updated. Everything is now updated.

But I'm still getting the "SCSI BIOS not found" error. Now, this time when I put a cd in, either my regular Win XP cd or the 4x copy of the Win XP cd, when it gets to the the cd rom recognition part, it acts as if it will boot to the cd (it hangs for about a minute or so) and then it continues on to the error message. I'm at a loss

Just wanted to let everyone know about my progress. I don't know how or why, but the gods must've had mercy on my pet project. Last night I went back to working on the server after almost 2 months. It worked. It went therough its messages and all. Whene I tried my Windows 2K Pro cd, it booted to it. I tried it again with using my Windows boot floppy to run Windows 98; that worked too.

So, now I have the problem of the iosubsys issues and I just searched through the forums and found the answer for it. So, hopefully when I go home tonight, I can have fun with my big server to play with. *smiling*