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Re: getting a kernel to recognize scsi on a ppc 7200



"David P. Reese Jr." wrote:

> for the past month ive been trying to get various dists of debian ppc
> to properly boot on a ppc 7200.  every time that i boot the kernel
> (ive tried sid and potato) it doesnt recognize the scsi device.  as you
> probably know its pretty hard to install the base os without a disk.
> ive run out of ideas.  ivr tried changing the scsi id of the disk, although
> i dont know what good this would do because it doesnt even seem to see the
> scsi bus.  i just cant figure out how to make the darn thing work.

Are you sure you are using the correct name?  If it is the first device, it
should be /dev/sda...  What happens?  What is the error it spits out?

HTH
--Nelson Abramson

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