Re: Install can't find drives on GVP-M/tekmagic 060 combo card.
> Michael Cassera wrote:
> > I thought I'd give Linux a shot on my Amiga 2000. I followed the howto
at
> > http://www.linux-m68.org/debian-amiga.html to partition my drive.
> >
> > I have a two drives on the GVP-M/tekmagic 060/scsi
card(tekscsi2.device). A
> > 1G at scsi-0 and a 2G at scsi-2. The 1G is my primary Amiga system
drive
> > that I left alone. I created 3 partitions on the 2G drive. One Amiga
> > native and 2 "custom" file systems. The two future Linux partitions
were
> > set at 1G and 128M for Root and Swap. I labelled them sdb1 and sdb2
> > respectively. Set the identifiers as per the howto as well as any other
> > settings and rebooted.
> >
> > Once I rebooted, I ran the amiboot-5.6 program without incident and got
the
> > install menu. Unfortunately, no drives were detected and I got stuck.
I
> > tried renaming the drives to sda1 & 2 without success.
>
> The name of the volume is irrelevant, it's the partition identifier that
> matters. What version of Debian are you trying to install? Did the
> kernel even detect your SCSI card? If the SCSI card is not recognised,
> then naturally it won't know about your hard disks (or your controller).
> When the installer starts, press Alt-F2. You will get a shell prompt,
> press enter to activate it, and type "dmesg |more", this is the output
> messages from the kernel, read carefully through it, does it say it
> found a SCSI host? Does it say that there are two SCSI drives? It should
> detect all SCSI hosts.
>
> It is possible that your SCSI controller is not supported.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ross..
I'm trying to install Debian v3.0.23. I checked out 'dmesg' and is says
'scsi hosts : 0'. I'm guessing that it just can't see it.
Thanks for the reply -
Mike
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