dan rawson

I have a SuperMicro motherboard (PIII-500, 256MB) with the following
disk setup:

SCSI ID 0 WD 9G /dev/sda
SCSI ID 2 WD 9G /dev/sdb
SCSI ID 3 Plextor CD-ROM
SCSI ID 4 HP DAT tape
IDE WD 40G /dev/hdc

The controller is an adaptec 7890 chipset on the motherboard.

Until a few days ago, the system had Slack 8 installed, booting off of
/dev/sda, with LILO installed in the MBR. It had been running that way
for a LONG time.

All the drives are recognized (and mounted) during the full install
procedure from CD. I did a low-level format of sda, installed onto that
drive with no problems (including the adaptec.s kernel), but I can't get
the system to boot.

Partitions:

swap 512MB /dev/sda1
/ 2Gb /dev/sda2 Marked "Bootable"
/home 4Gb /dev/sda5
/opt 2Gb /dev/sda6
/usr/local 9Gb /dev/sdb1
/usr/local/src 40Gb /dev/hdc1

I've tried all the LILO options (none, MBR, superblock, either in simple
or "expert" mode), but in each case, I get the BIOS message: "Searching
for boot record from SCSI . . . OK" then the system hangs there (and
never boots).

Should I put the old version back?? :-((

TIA . . .

Dan