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Re: Debian Installer hangs



Le lun 16/06/2003 à 10:54, Adrian Zaugg a écrit :
> Dear List
> 
> Installing Debian on a rawhide with a diskaray connected to a QLogic HVD
> (ISP 1040)* leads to a kernel panic:
> 	VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> 
> If I connect a single SCSI Drive to a Symbios Card, I can install Debian easily
> and access the diskarray and use the disks (unfortunately there is no
> space to mount this drive nowhere, so I must use the diskarray solely).
> 
> I have tried the following:
>   - use LordSuch's Netinst (from CD)
>   - use the rescue- and rootdisk (from floppy)
>   - preformat the disks with ext3 and bsd disklabels
>   - with unformatted and unpartitioned disks
>   - different cabling
>   - using bootflag rootfstype
>   - googling to get other hints...
>  
> What else can I try?
> 
> Can I move an installation from the single drive to the array?
> (Installing a Debian without anything to the single disk, connecting the
> array, boot into Debian, partition and format the array, make it
> bootable and copy the whole thing...would that work?)
That's exactly what I did because of a DAC960 RAID controller not
willing to work when using the driver as module.

It works, but it is rather painful and take a loooong time before you
can get your penguin up&running.

> What does the number 01:00 in the error-message mean? If I change the
> cabling, sometimes I get 02:00.
> 
> 
> Thank you for your help!
> 
> 
> Regards, Adrian.
> 
> 
> *)
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> RAWHIDE-QLogic(KZPBA)>-----SCSI-Cable-----<Clone of Sun D1000
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