[Debian]: Re: ASUS P2B-S, AIC-7890, Pentium II 333MHz, 512MB Memory

[Enrique Zanardi <ezanardi@ull.es>]

On Tue, Sep 15, 1998 at 02:01:35PM +0000, Mario Vanoni wrote:
> This mail suggested by Christian Leutloff.
> 
> Initial:
> 
> Mainboard P2B-S plus Adaptec 2940W/UW, SuSE Linux 5.2 running perfectly.
> ATTENTION: AIC-7890 disabled in bios.
> Update to SuSE Linux 5.3 with Kernel 2.0.35.
> Kernel sources patched with Doug Ledford's aic7xxx-5.1.0pre8-2.0.35.
> New kernel compiled, lilo, etc. etc.
> Despite disabled, the kernel now sees the AIC-7890 plus the 2940W/UW.
> Adaptec 2940W/UW physically removed, HD's changed to the mainboard,
> as well CD, DAT and QIC, all SCSI.
> AIC-7890 enabled in bios.
> Since two weeks, all works perfectly,
> HD's at 40MB, CD at 10MB, DAT at at 6,67MB and QIC sequentially.
> 
> Received Debian 2.0 from Lehmanns, boot from CDROM:
> 
> Ignores the 7890 and does not find any harddisk.

The kernel used in the boot-floppies (and CDROM) uses the old version of
the Adaptec drivers. You may use a custom kernel in the boot-floppies.

To do so:
- Configure the kernel with the following facilities linked in: initrd,
  ramdisk, loop, msdos, fat, minix, elf, ext2fs, procfs.
- Make your kernel with "make bzImage".
- Build a boot floppy disk following the installation instructions.
- Copy the kernel to a file named "linux" on the boot disk (its a dos
  formatted disk).  
- Change directory to the boot disk and run ./rdev.sh to to configure the
  kernel.
- Optionally edit syslinux.cfg to add arguments to the "DEFAULT"
  line, or add an "APPEND" line with arguments to be appended to any
  user-typed command line as well as the default.

	Greetings,
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Enrique Zanardi					   ezanardi@ull.es
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