Re: SS20, netboot, and SCSI drive detection
Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2006 16:44 schrieb Frans Pop:
> On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically,
> > none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard
> > drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me
> > think so), although a `probe-scsi' at the OB prompt does show it.
Try the following:
Alt+F2
Enter
modprobe the module for the controlle (IRRC it's called "esp").
> During the installation hard disks are not necessarily detected at boot
> time, but may be detected later during the different hardware detection
> phases.
>
> Some basic questions:
> - is the scsi controller on pci or sbus
> - if on pci, what is the output from 'lspci' and 'lspci -n'
The SS20 has not PCI bus, only SBUS.
> - if on sbus, what is the output of prtconf
> - what kernel driver module is needed for the scsi controller
> - does the scsi disk get recognized if you modprobe that module manually
That's probably because the controller is not detected.
HS
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