Friend had a similar problem a few weeks ago. His boss said he needed a
different boot disk for that hardware. Sorry I can't be more specific but
my friend is no Linux guru and I'm getting this second-hand.
Brian Swick
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On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> I downloaded the prebuilt binary images for x86 CDs for Debian 2.1 and burnt
> a couple of CDs. The first CD is bootable. When I boot off of it, I'm given a
> "boot: " prompt and just hit enter. Then it starts loagind the kernel, all looks
> normal. But when it starts loadingthe SCSI adapter (AIC-7895 chipset on MB), it
> hangs after doing the second channel. It doesn't go as far as scanning the
> channels for devices, just as far as recognizing there are two channels. I have
> read through some of the Debian install guide and tried the suggested boot
> parameters of aic7xxx=no_probe and aic7xxx=no_reset (depending on which doc you
> read) and neither help. My motherboard is a Tyan S1696DLU Thunder 2 ATX. I have
> considered turning of the chipset in the BIOS, but I'm trying to install on a
> SCSI hard drive from a SCSI cdrom, so that would be counter-productive. If
> anyone has any suggestions as to how I can overcome this I would appreciate it.
> Thanks.
>
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