On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 03:33:51PM +0100, Olivier Cappe wrote: > I am trying to install Woody on a i386 system which has two SCSI disks > that need the Fusion MPT SCSI drivers. RH 8.0 installs correctly on > this one and reports [snip] > However, I could not install Debian on this system. The first thing is that as > said here, [snip] > I finally went for the updated module preload floppy 2.4.20-modules.bin from > http://people.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ together with bootbf2.4.iso as > found in http://people.debian.org/~blade/boot-floppies/netinst-full-pre/. This > time I could load the mptbase.o and mptscsih.o modules from the floppy and > proceed up to the "reboot" item in the installation (thereby erasing my RH > install). In addition to these two modules, I also added sg support in the > "Insert kernel modules" section. > > The problem is that I can't reboot: reboot from disk fails with "No operating > system" while reboot from the boot floppy created during the installation > apparently lacks the two mpt* modules so that I see the following message > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 > > 3 times and then: > > VFS: Cannot open root device "sda5" or 08:05 > Please append a correct "root=" boot option > Kernel panic: VFS: Unable tp mount root fs on 08:05
I had to use bootbf2.4.iso and preload-2.4.20.bin (not "2.4.20-modules.bin") for the same hardware, but I was able to reboot without trouble. The mpt modules had been copied to disk and were loaded during reboot. I did not add sg support. 87b0f3beb29259a26faa79fe6bafd392 woody-3.0.24-pre/bootbf2.4.iso 09046d577f96f51721aaf67d17ad2e87 woody-3.0.24-pre/preload-2.4.20.bin -rw-r--r-- 1 ryan staff 40009728 Jan 7 12:55 bootbf2.4.iso -rw-r--r-- 1 ryan staff 1474560 Jan 8 07:52 preload-2.4.20.bin Ryan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
