Booting Debian to single user with SCSI Raid

[Tom Fogal]

If you can't just give lilo the '-s' option, i'd recommend the slack boot
disk. disk 1 should be all you need, just one floppy.

just stick it in and when you get the lilo prompt you can do something like
'boot root=/dev/whatever -s'.

if that doesnt have support in-kernel for your scsi stuff, get the second 
boot disk and boot into the slack 'install'. but instead of running the 
install program, load the scsi modules supports (probably yet another floppy)
and mount the drive as you normally do.

also, wasnt 'knoppix' meant to be a rescue system (i really dont remember..)
does the system have a bootable cd-rom drive?

HTH, good luck,

-tom

> I'm having difficulties trying to boot a Debian 3.0 system to single
> user on a Compaq ProLiant 380 system. This has a SCSI Raid array
> and so drives are named /dev/ida/c0d0p1, /dev/ida/c0d0p2, etc.
> 
> I've determined that boot is on c0d0p0 and root is c0d0p1. I've
> tried to boot with the Debian install cd (disk 1) and entered
> 
> rescue root=/dev/ida/c0d0p1 1
> 
> at the boot: prompt but it gives me a kernel panic every time,
> claiming that it can't find the device.
> 
> I've tried to see if I can stop the lilo boot process to kick it
> into single user mode but that doesn't fly either. At one point
> in the boot process it allows me to hit Enter to get a shell
> prompt. But this turns out to be pretty useless. I can see what
> files are available in the ramdisk by using "echo *" and there is
> a mount command but of course it also will not mount the drive.
> 
> The basic problem I've got is that the system seems to be getting
> wedged when it tries to start X. I cannot get an alternate console
> window on the thing and the network doesn't startup either. So I
> have no way in to modify the init config so that it doesn't try
> to start X anymore.
> 
> Any ideas are welcome!
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dan
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