Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jim Ziegler wrote: On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote: While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI initialization. It gets this far: I am having the same problem with an Industrial Computer Source system. I had problems mailing to [EMAIL PROTECTED], so I'll post this to the list in hopes that you'll see it. (BTW, this is all a bit OT for debian-devel; any further discussion should be on debian-user - sorry for the cross-post.) --- The problem you are having is a feature of the Debian 2.1 boot disks. The following is from the 2.1 release notes, which can be viewed at http://www.debian.org/releases/slink. Rescue Floppy Users of Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards, and other SCSI controllers with the aic7xxx chipset, will probably experience problems with the standard boot-floppies. A kind user has made some experiments which many users find to solve their problems. There are two alternative Rescue Floppies for the i386 architecture at ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/. There are also replacement kernels in that location, which you can use to simply replace the existing kernels on the boot-floppies. Hope that helps, tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Forget honesty - forget creativity http://www.debian.org | The dumbest buys the mostest | Is the name of the game... (Biafra)
Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jim Ziegler wrote: : On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote: : While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin : disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI : initialization. It gets this far: : ... : ((scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter found at PCI 14/0 : (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs : (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions. : : The same computer boots fine from a previous COL 1.1 kernel on its (SCSI) : hard disk. In that case the SCSI driver is identified as aic7xxx. : : An almost identical machine (more meomory, IDE hard disk) works fine from a : Slackware kernel which is a little over a year old and also uses the aic7xxx : driver. : : : I am having the same problem with an Industrial Computer Source system. [ moving to -user since it doesn't belong on -devel ] http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9907/msg01161.html http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ has the ability to search the archives (at the bottom). -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init
While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI initialization. It gets this far: ... (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter found at PCI 14/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions. The same computer boots fine from a previous COL 1.1 kernel on its (SCSI) hard disk. In that case the SCSI driver is identified as aic7xxx. An almost identical machine (more meomory, IDE hard disk) works fine from a Slackware kernel which is a little over a year old and also uses the aic7xxx driver. I would be grateful for suggestion on working around this problem. Tom Kuiper -- Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (137.79.89.31) SnailMail: Jet Propulsion Lab 169-506, Pasadena, CA 91109 Phone/fax: (818) 354-5623/8895 WWW:http://DSNra.JPL.NASA.gov/~kuiper/
Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init
I don't know if this is the source of your problem, but I have found that the WD7000 auto-probe will die when there is an Adaptec SCSI controller in the system. This is a BIOS issue, not a controller issue. Dave Bristel On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Tom Kuiper wrote: Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:05:21 PDT From: Tom Kuiper [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init Resent-Date: 4 Sep 1999 02:12:15 - Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI initialization. It gets this far: ... (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter found at PCI 14/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions. The same computer boots fine from a previous COL 1.1 kernel on its (SCSI) hard disk. In that case the SCSI driver is identified as aic7xxx. An almost identical machine (more meomory, IDE hard disk) works fine from a Slackware kernel which is a little over a year old and also uses the aic7xxx driver. I would be grateful for suggestion on working around this problem. Tom Kuiper -- Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (137.79.89.31) SnailMail: Jet Propulsion Lab 169-506, Pasadena, CA 91109 Phone/fax: (818) 354-5623/8895 WWW:http://DSNra.JPL.NASA.gov/~kuiper/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init
I've got anunofficial installation diskset which is set up specifically for the aic7xxx driver, that will most likely take care of your problem. You can find it at http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/. On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 07:05:21PM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote: While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI initialization. It gets this far: ... (scsi0) Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter found at PCI 14/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions. The same computer boots fine from a previous COL 1.1 kernel on its (SCSI) hard disk. In that case the SCSI driver is identified as aic7xxx. An almost identical machine (more meomory, IDE hard disk) works fine from a Slackware kernel which is a little over a year old and also uses the aic7xxx driver.
