Re: Re: Boot problem
On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 04:07:05PM +0100 , Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2000 at 04:43:49PM +0100, bies@rz.onet.pl wrote:
> > >Grzegorz Bieszczak <bies@rz.onet.pl> writes:
> > >
> > >> I am trying to install Debian 2.2 r0. While the first boot to start
> > >> installation system hangs after the line:
> > >> md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> [...]
> > >Hardware conflict. Can you say "x86 is a crap architecture"?
> > >
> > >I suggest you try booting with the 2nd or 3rd CDs, which have kernels
> > >more optimized for modern (PCI) hardware.
> [...]
> > After an attempt from 2nd CD I got additional
> > message:
> > sim710: No NCR53C710 adapter found.
never mind. this is kernel autodetection. If you don't have this one, you
can sefely ignore this
> > NCR reminds me of SCSI adapter, but I don't have
> > nad SCSI device in my computer. Looks like Debian
> > 2.2 requires a SCSI device to be present in the
> > computer. Strange....
>
> If you have read the documentation, you would know that there
> are 4 'flavors' of kernels in Debian. One of them only has
No. The standard one has almost all SCSI drivers, but the others don't.
> drivers for SCSI drives, so you can't boot it on a IDE-only
> system.
yes, you can.
Petr Cech
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<zpx> it's amazing how "not-broken" debian is compared to slack and rh
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