Re: Installing Debian on a 7200 w/ SCSI
Récemment, Sean Coyle (sean.coyle@247media.com) écrivait :
> HELP!
>
> I am currently working with Debian (Potato) to try and install on an
> old-world 7200 PCI machine. After a few hours, I have been able boot into
> Linux and partition the drive; however, when I try and format and mount the
> partitions, the SCSI drive (/dev/sda) sometimes falls off the selection
> table.
Have you check your logs for SCSI errors ?
I use to have problems with the 2.2.17 kernel coming with Potato on my 7300.
Since (iirc) kernel 2.2.10, it seems there is an incompatibility between the
mesh driver code and my system (Quantum 2G on internal Mesh).
Nothing like "kernel: SCSI disk error ... sense key None" or "scsidisk I/O
error at sector ..." in your /var/log/message ?
I think the default on Potato is to remount the filesystem read-only when an
error occurs, which is a very bad thing (tm) during an installation.
I've manage to install potato using and old linuxppc 2.2.6 kernel in BootX
and I've recompiled my own 2.2.17 kernel later (wish mesh.c and mesh.h
coming from 2.2.6 sources, sort of "ante-porting" :-)
Now, everything seems OK.
Hope this help. Anyway, has anyone heard of such problem with mesh and ppc
kernel ? I've found nothing related on the Web or the mailinglist archives.
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