David,
Thank you very much for your help. I really
appreciate your feedback. You are helping
me move forward.
Are you sure that the *Redhat boot image*
cannot be used with Mandrake. LSI techs
described this image as a *driver update
image* rather than a *boot image* and said
that if an *update driver* install option
was available in Mandrake that the *driver
update image* should work. My head spins when
I read about all this stuff--still green.
The Whole Story
--------------------------
I am continuing to work on getting Mandrake
7.2 Complete installed. I have tried the
install mode *text expert* several times
yesterday and today. It does fail in a
different place than the *all* and
*recommended* modes of install that can
be used after pressing F1 from initial
install screen.
Looks like install goes into endless loop!
In *text expert* mode I am able to choose
the *Symbios 53c8xx* driver (I choose the
53c8xx driver because the NCR53c8xx driver
was listed as *NCR 53c8xx PCI* but I do
not have a PCI card just the onboard LSI
SCSI chip), then use autoprobe to setup
driver and verify with Alt-F3 that no error
are occuring. (thanks for your tip on ALT-F3)
Two messages that show have the insmod
command you mentioned:
*running: /bin/insmod /modules/scsi_mod.o
*running: /bin/insmod /modules/sym53c8xx.o
At this point the GUI displies:
Cannot mount /dev/scd0
And the text output from Alt-F3 is an endless
loop of these messages (do not know which
message is first of group)(used Ctrl-s and Ctrl-q
to stop and restart message stream)
*PCI bridge probe:
*not found
*Intel PCIC probe:
*not found
*Databook TCiC-2 probe:
*not found
What to do? What to do?
I called Tyan (motherboard manufacturer) and
LSI (SCSI manufacturer). Tyan told me to
recompile the kernel with LSI drivers which
did not make sence since I could select
the appropriate driver during install. Next,
called LSI and they said the sym53c8xx driver
that ships with LM 7.2 is old and needs to be
updated to get install working with Tyan
S1867DU3LAN motherboard and onboard 53C1010-33.
What a story! I wish Mandrake had an *update
driver* option like Redhat 7.0. I wish there
was generic solution to installing updated
drivers on Linux! (during install)
Are you sure that the *Redhat boot image*
cannot be used with Mandrake. LSI described
this image a *driver update image* rather
than a *boot image* and said that if an
*update driver* install option was available
in Mandrake that the *driver update image*
should work?
I did make floppies out of other.img LSI image
by using rawrite utils on LM 7.2 CD (works ok
on Windows 2000) but can see any use for them.
The expert and text expert install modes give
no clue as to using these images and I got
no more info from linuxdoc type searches.
Think I will go get Redhat 7.0 and give it a
try...At least until next Mandrake comes out.
Brad
--- "David G.Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 1) Is this *Redhat 7.0 boot image* compatible with
> > Linux-Mandrake Complete 7.2?
>
> The RedHat 7.0 boot image isn't going to enable you to install
> Mandrake 7.2
> ============
>
> > 2) Is the initrd command similar to dd command I read about ?
>
> dd just copies an image from one location to another.
> initrd builds a ram disk image to be used at boot. This image
> includes the kernel, modules, etc...
> ============
>
> > 3) How can I build a boot image floppy if I only have
> > a laptop running Windows 2000 Professional for the
> > download of new SCSI drivers? (sad I know)
>
> rawrite allows you to transfer an existing boot image to a floppy.
> You can
> find rawrite.txt in the \dosutils\ folder on the LM install CD. If
> you want
> to create your own boot image I don't know how you could do that with
> Win2K.
> You need at least win32 port of modutils and I don't think that
> exists.
> ============
>
> I've got a couple of comments...
>
> Did you try an "expert" install (Press F1 upon boot from CD)? You
> should be
> able to select the NCR53c8xx driver to at least get things installed.
> If the
> NCR driver doesn't work, you've got to get a boot image that includes
> the
> SYM53x8xx module. Perhaps the "other.img" (on the install cd in
> /images/)
> contains this on - I don't know.
>
>
> During the install there are several sessions running. You can use
> the
> CTRL-ALT-F(n) keystokes to switch between them. There is even a
> command
> prompt which you might be able to load the sym53c8xx driver from
> (attached)
> using insmod.
>
> I'm pretty green at this stuff - perhaps someone else has better
> info/ideas.
>
> DP
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