Re: Installation with BT-930
On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: Can you boot from CD-ROM? A WD-7000 isn't on your hardware list. Which debian-version is it? Yes, as I said I insert the CD-ROM and the installation programm comes up without any problem -- so the controller works! No a WD-7000 isn't on my list because I havn't such a thing inside my box. What kind of controller is it? Thought it should be any emulation of the internel ZIP-drive??? It is Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 from the German manufacturer J.F. Lehmann. I installed two other boxes (non SCSI) without trouble from this CD. Greetings Andreas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation with BT-930
You have an interesting problem. The BIOS on the BT-930 is responsible for booting the kernel. It is doing that just fine. However, the kernel doesn't know about the BT-930, and it can't do anything once booted. ** The BT-930 is not supported by the bootable CD-ROM. On Sun, Sep 28, 1997 at 06:40:14PM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote [edited for space]: K6-200, BT-930, ASUS TX97-XE, Matrox-Millenium, IBM SCSI-DCAS 34330, Plextor SCSI-CDROM, IOMEGA-ZIP SCSI intern, 64MB SDRAM Looks fine. Well I tried the 2.0.30 special installation diskettes which should work with Buslogic Flashpoint controllers but should crash often. Yes I veryfied that they crash ... :-((( The last words were: Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is a post-1991 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 It seems that after this the SCSI controller is to be initialized. I don't follow you here. The kernel actually stopped after initalizing the md driver? Which image was this, exactly? Using the standard diskettes the next lines are: Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi : 0 hosts scsi : detected total. but I think the error message is connected with failing to initialize the parallel port zipdrive which I havn't because using an internal SCSI Zipdrive. Or is this the point??? You're getting error messages because you don't have that hardware installed. It is normal behavior. You _should_ be able to use the 2.0.30 special images. If those don't work (please confirm), let me know and I will compile a custom kernel for you to put on the rescue disk. Good luck, Jeff -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation with BT-930
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Jeff Noxon wrote: The last words were: Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is a post-1991 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 It seems that after this the SCSI controller is to be initialized. I don't follow you here. The kernel actually stopped after initalizing the md driver? Which image was this, exactly? Hmm, I don't know anything about the md driver, but anyway I used the latest disk images from ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/bo/disks-i386/1997-08-01/special/v30 The README claims: Linux 2.0.30 added support for Buslogic's FlashPoint SCSI adapters, syn flooding protection and the new ISDN drivers. Unfortunately this kernel version tends to hang machines in some cases, especially when they are tight on RAM. So keep a 2.0.29 kernel somewhere! You _should_ be able to use the 2.0.30 special images. If those don't work (please confirm), let me know and I will compile a custom kernel for you to put on the rescue disk. OK, as I said, they stop after the md driver. May be I've found a solution: I booted DOS and tried loadlin using a kernel I compiled on another box. While writing this I compile a second try because I forgot to include RAM disk support ... all who tried that before know the result. But before this kernel got his panic it detected the available SCSI devices and the buslogic controller and so I'm very hopefully that this will work. If not I will give a further report. (But it will take me one hour because the box which compiles the image is s slow :-(((). Thanks for your help Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation with BT-930
On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Egon Schmid wrote: Can you boot from CD-ROM? A WD-7000 isn't on your hardware list. Which debian-version is it? Yes, as I said I insert the CD-ROM and the installation programm comes up without any problem -- so the controller works! No a WD-7000 isn't on my list because I havn't such a thing inside my box. What kind of controller is it? Thought it should be any emulation of the internel ZIP-drive??? It is Debian GNU/Linux 1.3.1 from the German manufacturer J.F. Lehmann. I installed two other boxes (non SCSI) without trouble from this CD. The Debian installation kernel comes with almost all of the SCSI drivers built in so that a CD installation can be done by almost everyone. The WD-7000 driver is getting some response to its hardware probing from another device. This is most often caused by and ethernet card with control registers in the address space expected to be inhabited by the SCSI card. There are boot parameters that can reserve the address space (so it doesn't get probed by the WD-7000 driver) and assign it to a specific device. For information on this subject look at the BootPrompt-HOWTO. Luck, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Installation with BT-930
Can you boot from CD-ROM? A WD-7000 isn't on your hardware list. Which debian-version is it? Next, what does say your CD-ROM-boot which SCSI-adapter do you have. What devices have been found for the BT-930 and so on. Starting a Debian-installation from a floppy isn't a good idea. Es geht auch anders, doch es geht auch so. (Berthold Brecht Dreigroschenoper) Egon Schmid, Grueninger Str. 6, 70599 Stuttgart Voice +49 711 453721 Data +49 711 453721 Fax +49 711 453721 On Sun, 28 Sep 1997, Andreas Tille wrote: Hello, first my configuration K6-200, BT-930, ASUS TX97-XE, Matrox-Millenium, IBM SCSI-DCAS 34330, Plextor SCSI-CDROM, IOMEGA-ZIP SCSI intern, 64MB SDRAM all new assembled. I tried to start with the Debian CD (German manufacturer J.F. Lehmanns) I seted up the Buslogic BIOS to boot from CD: it works perfectly and my box booted from CD. I've got the installation menue. But when I try to partition a harddisk it failed ans didn't found any harddisk. ALso trying to mount any /dev/sd? at tty2 failed with: Kernel could not recognize ... as a blockdevice (try insmod driver) ... or things like that. I have to say that the harddisk works with the factory installed DOS without any floppy or CD in the drives perfectly without any problem. That means the drive seems to be all right. While booting I've got: Warning : Unknown PCI device (8096:71xx). Please read include/linux/pci.h (xx aus 00, 10, 11, 12, 13, sowie zusatzlich (102b:51b)) but this happens on some boxes as I heard and seems not to be connected with my problem. Well I tried the 2.0.30 special installation diskettes which should work with Buslogic Flashpoint controllers but should crash often. Yes I veryfied that they crash ... :-((( The last words were: Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is a post-1991 md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 It seems that after this the SCSI controller is to be initialized. Using the standard diskettes the next lines are: Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! PPA: unable to initialise controller at 0x378, error 2 scsi : 0 hosts scsi : detected total. but I think the error message is connected with failing to initialize the parallel port zipdrive which I havn't because using an internal SCSI Zipdrive. Or is this the point??? But the CD is read very well!?!?!? Any hints Greetings Andreas. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
