On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: > > Try making a 1.3 rescue disk and booting it with the fdomain parameters. > > If you watch the screen (fast) during boot, you should see whether it got > > the scsi controller OK or not. If that works, then it's just a matter of > > configuring the kernel and LILO on your system. > > I can't make the floppy at the moment; it seems not to work. However, I > now have an appropriate kernel on the machine. Answering lilo with > > Linux fdomain=0x140,11 > > does not result in loading the module.
This is for passing the parameters to fdomain that is compiled into the kernel. > However, > > insmod fdomain gives me (roughly; from another screen) > > scsi0 <fdomain>: BIOS version 3.4 at 0xc8000 using scsi id 7 > scsi0 <fdomain>: TMC-1830 chip at 0x140 irq 11 > scsi0: Future Domain TMC-16x0 SCSI driver, version 5.44 > scsi : 1 host > Vendor NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:83 Rev: 1.0 > Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI Revision: 01 > Detected CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, chanel 0, id0, lun0 > > is /dev/sr0 the correct device, then? It's acceptable to my system. > So I tried ./MAKEDEV sr0, which gave me the device. > > Then > > bash-2.00# mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom -t iso9660 > mount: block device /dev/sr0 is write-protected, mounting read-only This is the expected behavior. > which results in the cd making some noise, and the system hang. This is not. > a couple of things: should it be /dev/scd0, or /dev/sdc0? it seems to > be scd, but the howto referss consistently to sdc. /dev/scd0 > is it possible that it simply needs several minute to load? There's > another access a couple of minutes later. Seconds but not minutes. This always works for me: mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom ls -lR /cdrom is a good test When I get CD errors the messages pop up on whatever virtual console I am using. Same for the retries. So if the system hangs, I know why. I think booting from the standard 1.3 kernel will tell us what direction to go in. If it works, it's only a software problem. If not, then maybe a bad CD drive. Make sure to try it with more than 1 CD. I have an old soundblaster 2x that is awfully fussy about the media. I think the rescue disk kernel will allow you to do something like this: Boot: Linux fdomain=0x230,11 root=/dev/hda1 in which case you can login and try mounting the CD. You might have to MAKEDEV scd0 first. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Special Linux CD offer + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
