My apologies if this problem has already been discussed and resolved, but I
missed a fair number of postings when the mailing list was 'reset' last week.
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you
wrote:
> Hi, I'm having a problem getting armlinux running on a
> RPC700 with StrongArm(200MHz), I've got the following
> disks:
>
> IDE: 800MB ADFS
> SCSI: 4GB disk - PowerTec Fast SCSI II card
> +CD ROM, Floppy and Parallel Port Disk Drive.
> i3 EtherH 600 card
>
> I initially had some problems with partman, but eventually got round
> them by using the !PowerMgr software for the SCSI card to create 2 empty
> partitions, which I then designated as Linux Native (1761MB) and Swap
> (127MB), these were at the end of the drive.
>
> I ran the installer, it was able to recognize the SCSI card, the Network
> card and the PPA Zip drive (all on autoprobe) and I was able to specify
> /dev/sda4 as root partition and /dev/sda5 as swap. Installing from the
> Zip disk (/dev/sdb?, something) it seemed to successfully install....
>
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Hi Richard,
Basically, I had exactly the same problem trying to install Linux on my
RPC600 + StrongARM + Powertek SCSI II + SyJet 1.5GB. From my experiences,
I had to deduce that there is no SCSI support in the install Kernel, and it
has to be loaded as a module during boot up. Unfortunately, if your system
is all on a SCSI drive, it can't get to the module (or the Kernel if you
attempt a normal boot). The installation process presumably has a copy of
the module in it somewhere, which is loaded in by the installer, hence you
can install the system on the drive in the first place, but not use it. :-(
The only solution I've found is to have a small 'boot' installation on a
partition on the IDE drive, with extra partitions on the SCSI drive for
'usr' and 'var' If I remember correctly. Then you need to compile a kernel
with built in SCSI support for the Powertek card. You should then be able
to boot up the system if you keep the kernel on an ADFS partition and use
the -bootkernel option.
I attempted this, and re-compiled the kernel without problems. However, If I
select to include Powertek SCSI support within the kernel, the kernel fails
to succesfully access the SCSI hardware on boot-up, and gets stuck in a loop
trying. If I select to load the support as modules, it keeps complaining
about the modules being the wrong version. Its a little while ago, so I
don't remember all the details. But suffice to say, after I tried
everything I could think of I put it to one side, to come back to when I had
more time. I was using the old clan disk RedHat distribution, with the
latest installation kernels and boot discs off the Linux site.
<plug for help>
Perhaps someone else out there has had similar problems and can guess where
I went wrong?
</plug>
If you get it to work, I'd be interested in hearing from you!
Chris
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