At 04:23 PM 11/16/99 +0000, Carlo Contavalli wrote:
Hi All!
I'm trying to install debian on a dual Pentium machine with a SCSI
controller, but after the prompt and after "Loading", without printing
any dot, it stops and prints "Boot failed".
"Loading Boot failed".
The computer has two pentium 166, 36 Mb of Ram, an adaptec AHA1542b
controller, two HD and a cdrom.
Any IDE disks ???
I tryied giving the kernel some parameters at the boot prompt, but it
doesn't boot anyway, and I don't think that's my problem.
Any idea of what I could try?
Thank you, for the help!
Bye
Rescue Floppy
Users of Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards, and other SCSI controllers with the
aic7xxx chipset, will probably experience problems with the standard
boot-floppies. A kind user has made some experiments which many users find
to solve their problems. There are two alternative Rescue Floppies for the
i386 architecture at ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/. There are also replacement
kernels in that location, which you can use to simply replace the existing
kernels on the boot-floppies. You'll need the Drivers Floppy from the
standard location.
A competing and newer set of Rescue and Driver Floppies for Adaptec users
can be found at http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/.
