Re: Installing Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2300 problem

[Ian Redfern]

Your primary SCSI controller is an Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host adapter;
your secondary (with the CD) is an Adaptec AIC-7860 Ultra SCSI host adapter
(according to one of my PowerEdge 2300s running Debian 2.1).

You need to search the mailing list archives for the aic7xxx SCSI driver and its
conflict with the wd7000 driver and special command-line flags - people have
produced special boot disks that work for machines with AIC7890s, as this is an
ongoing problem.

Ian Redfern ([EMAIL PROTECTED])

Re: Installing Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2300 problem

[Krzysztof Adamski]

Thanks, I was able to place a 2.2.5 kernel with the aic7xxx driver on
the rescue disk and it boots now.

K

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Ian Redfern wrote:

 Your primary SCSI controller is an Adaptec AIC-7890/1 Ultra2 SCSI host 
 adapter;
 your secondary (with the CD) is an Adaptec AIC-7860 Ultra SCSI host adapter
 (according to one of my PowerEdge 2300s running Debian 2.1).
 
 You need to search the mailing list archives for the aic7xxx SCSI driver and 
 its
 conflict with the wd7000 driver and special command-line flags - people have
 produced special boot disks that work for machines with AIC7890s, as this is 
 an
 ongoing problem.
 
 Ian Redfern ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
 
 

Installing Debian on Dell PowerEdge 2300 problem

[Krzysztof Adamski]

I'm trying to install debian on the dell, the second scsi controller is
detected (it has only a cdrom drive) but the first one is not.

Do I need a different rescue disk or just different parameters to the
kernel.

There is already RedHat on the system, but the kernel that comes with it
does not work when placed on the rescue disk since it does not have all
the install options compiled into it.

Thanks in advance

K