After installing 5.2, I can boot LINUX from the startup floppy and see the SCSI initialization cranking in and when it gets all the way up, I can do a mount to the CDROM with no problem. However, if I boot to DOS and start LINUX with LILO, I don't see the SCSI startup stuff and thus can't use my cdrom. I don't know what is the difference between the two initializations and where to look to try to add the scsi initialization to the LILO startup. I need to keep a dual-environment in which I can boot Windows 95 or LINUX. I tried getting an answer on this with bug 1053, but I only got one reply back. I tried several attempts at building a new kernel and nothing changes. I am new to LINUX - that's why I bought the book, to learn it - so I need to know what's up with the two different initializations. How do I make the LILO come up the same way as the floppy boot? Thanks in advance.
When booting to dos prior to starting linux, you need to use the linload.exe utility (found on the Red Hat CD) to boot Linux, not LILO. Also in order to get scsi support his way, you need to add an argument to the linload.exe in the form of: linload.exe vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 init=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img Of course somethings such as the root argument and the version number in the initrd may be different depending on your system.