Re: Help Please!! SCSI install problem
Thanks Chris,
I know there is a powerpc driver for the adaptec card.
I booted off of a YellowDog cd and was able to see my
drives. I would prefer to run Debian if I can get it
to install as I think the support, in general is
better and this is going to be a server in a
production environment. This list is the best resource
out there for PPC versions of Linux. A friend of mine
suggested I use a different box and compile a new
kernel for installationj purposes with support for the
Adaptec card built in. If I did that, I think I would
need to use a different install procedure rather than
the cd install so that I could boot with that kernel.
It would just require some new learning on my part.
Perhaps I could use the kernel from the YelloDog cd
and the debian ramdisk. I am just not sure how to put
that together on a new world machine. It was fairly
easy to try different kernels with BootX. I'll have to
read the other installation options. Any more
suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Dave
--- Chris Tillman <tillman@voicetrak.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 05:40:56AM -0800, David
> Tisdell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I posted this a couple of days ago and haven't
> seen
> > any replies yet. I am kind of deperate to get this
> > solved. I have added a couple of additional pieces
> of
> > information from a couple of things I tried since
> my
> > first post.
> >
> > The machine is a Blue and White G3 (400MZ)Server
> with
> > 896 MB of RAM. It has 3 SCSI drives (one 9gb and
> two
> > 18gb) and two 40gb firewire drives. There are no
> ata
> > disk drives connected.
> > I am able to boot from the CD holding down the "C"
> key
> > and can boot up with a 2.4 kernel. I can't boot
> with
> > the 2.2 kernel. I go through the initial
> installation
> > procedures and when I get to Disk partioning I get
> the
> > message:
> > "No hard disk drives could be found and the
> network is
> > configured. Please select "next" to mount the root
> > file system via NFS."
> >
> > I switched to the alternate console and did a
> dmesg |
> > grep scsi and found that only the MESH driver was
> > loading. I tried to manually load the adaptec
> driver
> > as a module and couldn't find it.
>
> Here, you are talking about using modconf, right?
>
> > The scsi controller is an adaptec ultra2-lvd/se.
> It
> > came with the machine from Apple
> > The information on the chip itself is
> > Adaptec
> > AIC-7890ab
> > CQEC910
> > 748411
> > BK1986.1
> > KOREA
> > The drives are daisy chained together off the one
> > card. I believe they are terminated correctly as
> they
> > have worked fine in Mac OS for quite some time. It
> > would seem I need to get scsi support for the
> adaptec
> > controller loaded. How do I do that? I tried a
> > modprobe and insmod on the adaptec driver (at a
> > friend's suggestion who is quite experienced with
> > Debian on Intel hardware) with no success. Any
> help
> > would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
>
> The adaptec driver you are referring to here - came
> from where?
> It's likely any driver you found hanging around is
> designed
> for i386. Maybe you could go back to the source and
> see if they
> have a linux powerpc driver?
>
> If modconf is not showing it, then I think it's not
> available
> within the Debian installer and the insmod approach
> is what
> you have to do.
>
> --
> "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked
> is what
> we should do with software engineers. They put the
> designer
> under the bridge, and then they marched over it."
> -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
>
>
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