Thanks Chris, I know there is a powerpc driver for the adaptec card. I booted off of a YellowDog cd and was able to see my drives. I would prefer to run Debian if I can get it to install as I think the support, in general is better and this is going to be a server in a production environment. This list is the best resource out there for PPC versions of Linux. A friend of mine suggested I use a different box and compile a new kernel for installationj purposes with support for the Adaptec card built in. If I did that, I think I would need to use a different install procedure rather than the cd install so that I could boot with that kernel. It would just require some new learning on my part. Perhaps I could use the kernel from the YelloDog cd and the debian ramdisk. I am just not sure how to put that together on a new world machine. It was fairly easy to try different kernels with BootX. I'll have to read the other installation options. Any more suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Dave --- Chris Tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:40:56AM -0800, David > Tisdell wrote: > > Hi all, > > I posted this a couple of days ago and haven't > seen > > any replies yet. I am kind of deperate to get this > > solved. I have added a couple of additional pieces > of > > information from a couple of things I tried since > my > > first post. > > > > The machine is a Blue and White G3 (400MZ)Server > with > > 896 MB of RAM. It has 3 SCSI drives (one 9gb and > two > > 18gb) and two 40gb firewire drives. There are no > ata > > disk drives connected. > > I am able to boot from the CD holding down the "C" > key > > and can boot up with a 2.4 kernel. I can't boot > with > > the 2.2 kernel. I go through the initial > installation > > procedures and when I get to Disk partioning I get > the > > message: > > "No hard disk drives could be found and the > network is > > configured. Please select "next" to mount the root > > file system via NFS." > > > > I switched to the alternate console and did a > dmesg | > > grep scsi and found that only the MESH driver was > > loading. I tried to manually load the adaptec > driver > > as a module and couldn't find it. > > Here, you are talking about using modconf, right? > > > The scsi controller is an adaptec ultra2-lvd/se. > It > > came with the machine from Apple > > The information on the chip itself is > > Adaptec > > AIC-7890ab > > CQEC910 > > 748411 > > BK1986.1 > > KOREA > > The drives are daisy chained together off the one > > card. I believe they are terminated correctly as > they > > have worked fine in Mac OS for quite some time. It > > would seem I need to get scsi support for the > adaptec > > controller loaded. How do I do that? I tried a > > modprobe and insmod on the adaptec driver (at a > > friend's suggestion who is quite experienced with > > Debian on Intel hardware) with no success. Any > help > > would be greatly appreciated. Thanks > > The adaptec driver you are referring to here - came > from where? > It's likely any driver you found hanging around is > designed > for i386. Maybe you could go back to the source and > see if they > have a linux powerpc driver? > > If modconf is not showing it, then I think it's not > available > within the Debian installer and the insmod approach > is what > you have to do. > > -- > "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked > is what > we should do with software engineers. They put the > designer > under the bridge, and then they marched over it." > -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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