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Re: Fw: 3.0.17 woody install boot disks won't net install?



Hi Fellow-XLT-users,

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald R. Spoon" <dspoon@satx.rr.com>
To: <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Saturday, 13 April, 2002 18:56
Subject: Re: Fw: 3.0.17 woody install boot disks won't net install?


> > First of all, thanks a million for posting your milo and kernel-image.
> > It allowed me to quickly make some tests here on my XLT that leads me to
> > believe I have a hardware problem!!  Here is my reasoning:
> >
> > 1.  My milo + your 2.4.18 kernel --> kernel panic.  The messages is
> > "...Cannot open root device "sdb3" or 08:13"
> >
> > 2.  Your milo + your 2.4.18 kernel --> same error message as above.
> >
> > 3.  My milo + my "stripped" 2.4.18 kernel --> same error message as
> > above.  Note: I have made the "default" changes to look like yours for
> > the SCSI card.
> >
> > Since yours is a known "good" combination that boots the 2.4.18 kernel
> > and it acts the same way as all of my attempts, I would think the only
> > possibility left is something wrong with the SCSI controller.
>

Following your thread about kernel 2.4.18, I tested it overhere too.
Same results with my XLT-300 and NCR-scsi as reported by Donald Spoon.
I understood that Paul Slootman is *not* using the NCR to boot.
Apparently we cannot boot from disk using NCR53c810a ?

- Harm Damsma


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