Installer not recognizing SCSI disks after manually inserting modules
Hi,
I'm trying to install Woody on an Compaq Prosignia VS. This system has a
NCR53C710 SCSI controller with 2 disks (1G and 4,5G) connected to it.
There's also a CDROM on the SCSI chain. Both disks and the CDrom work
fine under DOS (with the appropriate drivers).
When starting the install I do so from a small DOS (6.22) partition on
the 1G disk starting with loadlin from a batch-file made from boot.bat
(from \install of the first Woody CD).
I'm booting the kernel from kernel-image-2.4.16-386_2.4.16-1. Using
another Linux machine I changed the installation ramdisk to contain the
following modules from this kernel-image package:
/lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/sim710.o
(for the SCSI controller).
/lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.o
(SCSI midlevel drivers right?)
/lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/scsi/sd_mod.o
(for SCSI disk support).
/lib/modules/2.4.16-386/kernel/drivers/net/pcnet32.o
(for the NIC on the motherboard)
After the "Configuring the Keyboard" step I switch to the second console
and do:
insmod scsi_mod
insmod sim710 sim710="addr:0x8000 irq:11
ïnsmod sd_mod
and verify with dmesg the SCSI disks are recognized by the kernel. I can
see the disks, make partitions on them etc.
If I return to the Installation menu to initialize and activate swap and
to initialize the root partition, it still says that there are no disks.
I suggests the "Preload essential modules from floppy" step. I tried
this but it does not recognize the floppy either, that's why I started
putting together my own installation ram-disk in the first place.
I also tried restarting the installation system to get it to recognize
the disks and partitions.
So my question is: Which command or action can I execute to make the
installation system recognize the disks/partitions? Or do I need more
modules?
Thanks in advance, Erik.
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