Erylon Hines wrote: >I've installed 8.2 problem free (mostly, more about that in another post) on >3 of my machines, but it refuses to work on a fourth. > >This one is a P233, Elitegroup P6LX-A mobo, 288 megs of ram, onboard Adaptec >78xx scsi (controlling both 50 pin wide and 68 pin ultra-wide connectors), 9 >gig Seagate 50 pin scsi drive, generic atapi 48X cd-rom, linksys ethernet, >Voodoo vid card, sb16 card, and serial modem. The mobo also has a built-in >(but unused) Adaptec RAIDport extension slot. As near as I >can tell, my atapi cd appears to be detected and the install starts, but then >bogs down. I've tried 3 times, and only once -- after 7 hours! -- did the >install appear to complete, but then an error message popped up "some >packages failed to install", then the initial boot failed, completely, with >no recovery possible. I initially suspected a bad cd, but the set worked >fine with my other machines. Then possibly a bad cd drive, but I swapped >drives and used the suspected bad one to install on another machine and it >worked. > >8.0 works fine on this machine, and I re-installed and am running it, so the >problem is related only to 8.2. > >Any ideas? > >eryl > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Yes, hit F1 at the boot splash screen and type
expert then skip the modules screen and select aic7xxx_old for your SCSI driver. Adaptec changed the drivers back in April of 2001 for the aic7xxx series and you are trying to use the current driver with the old driver firmware. Another option is to simply upgrade the BIOS on your PCChips boardif they have issued for the more recent version of the Adaptec controller. Civileme
Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
