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Re: Debian and Adaptec 294x



This one worked.  Thank you very much.

Eric

"Karl B. Hammar" wrote:
> 
> Your message says me that the 7000FASST might not be the cause of the
> problem.
> 
> Well, try this one then
> 
> # cp .config.save .config
> # make menuconfig # remove all compiled in SCSI support except aic7xxx
> # make dep; make clean; make zImage
> # mv arch/i386/boot/zImage vmlinuz-2.0.36-only-aic7xxx
> 
>   available as ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/vmlinuz-2.0.36-only-aic7xxx
> 
> # cp /.../disks-i386/2.1.9-1999-03-03/resc1440.bin .
> # cp resc1440.bin resc1440.bin-only-aic7xxx
> # mount -o loop resc1440.bin-only-aic7xxx  /mnt
> # cp vmlinuz-2.0.36-only-aic7xxx /mnt/linux
> # /mnt/rdev.sh
> + set -e
> + readonly Arch=i386
> + Arch=i386
> + '[' i386 '!=' m68k ']'
> + rdev -R /mnt/linux 1
> + rdev -r /mnt/linux 0
> + rdev -v /mnt/linux -1
> + rdev /mnt/linux /dev/ram0
> # umount /mnt
> 
>   available as ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/resc1440.bin-only-aic7xxx
> 
> To save download time, get vmlinuz-2.0.36-only-aic7xxx and do part two
> yourself.
> 
> If this does not work, hmm, big problems
> If this do work, let us include more SCSI support and iterate till we find
> the one cousing the conflict.
> 
> Cheers,
> Karl
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Karl Hammar             Aspö Data               karl@kalle.csb.ki.se
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> S-742 94 Östhammar      070 511 97 84           Professionella Linuxlösningar
> Sweden
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Eric wrote:
> 
> > It failed.  I booted using 4 different boot prompt parameters: none;
> > aic7xxx=no_probe; aic7xxx=no_reset; and aic7xxx=no_probe,no_reset.  All
> > four times, the system froze after the "419 instructions downloaded..."
> > line, for a good minute, which I interpreted as failure.  Any more
> > suggestions?  I really want to get Linux running.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> 
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