"Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)" wrote:
>
> I don't think your issue is compiling the module into the kernel. I think
> it is a corrupt boot sector or the /boot partition is past the 1024 cyl
> limit. Did you remove all IDE drives from the system? I had problems with
> the BIOS on my machine here at work with having both an IDE and SCSI drive.
> The BIOS was bound and determined to use the boot sector of the IDE to get
> going which, in my case, had an old Linux boot sector, giving me the 'LI'
> prompt. If I used the emergency floppy that the install let me make, I
> could boot into the correct partition with no problems. I eventually
> figured out the way that the crappy Phoenix BIOS wanted to be set to ignore
> the IDE properly.
>
AH!
that might be it. I have two internal IDE's. went to the bios and told
it to boot from scsi, during boot it shows the scsis as C: and D: maybe
if I remove the IDE's it will work?
> This next item is slightly off topic...
> Why are you mating a 9GB SCSI drive to an ISA controller? That's a recipe
> for a system slower than IDE. Slap in a 29xx PCI controller which has the
> bus bandwidth the hard drive needs.
>
aha152x was FREE :) matter of fact so were the 9gb fijitsu drives, the
sun diskpack, two nic's and my memory :)
> Matthew
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ronald J. Yacketta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 3:11 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [expert] LM 7.0 SCSI Install
> >
> >
> > John,
> >
> > so, once I compile the aha152x into the kernel
> > I would modify the lilo.conf and pass the parameters needed
> > to see the scsi on the append line? (aha152x=0x140,11,7,1,1)
> >
