1.1-Beta install problem with Buslogic controller
I was trying to install the 1.1-Beta of Debian Linux and my system
hung during the intial boot. I was using the Jun 3 version of
boot1440.bin.
My system is a 100 MHz Pentium PCI box with 32 MB RAM. It has an
Award Bios. I have a Buslogic BT-956C PCI Wide SCSI Host Adapter
with a Fujitzu 2 GB hard disk (it has 2075 cylinders).
Boot finds my Buslogic controller and says it is initialized
succesfully. It detects the Fujitzu drive.
The last line is:
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
It then hangs with the drive light on.
I also have a scsi cd-rom and tape drive installed. I was surprised
that it claims:
scsi0: Target 0: Synchronous at 10.0 mega-transfers/second
I thought the 956C was a wide FAST scsi controller that ran at 20
megabits per second. Is that the problem? Or is it the fact that DOS
(I have a msdos partition on /dev/sda1) thinks it has only 1024
cylinders?
I know the machine is okay because I had been using it to run a
Slackware version of Linux with kernel 1.2.13. Also the Slackware
3.0.3 boot disk recognizes the drive proberly and will allow me to
boot. I quit after fdisk'ing the drive because I decided I wanted a
more upgradable system.
Using the old slackware install I never could get LILO to work but
Loadlin was fine.
Please don't tell me I must use Slackware or Red Hat.
Larry Loos
Show-Me Net e-mail: larry@showme.net
1417 N Henderson http://www.showme.net/
Cape Girardeau, MO 63701
314/334-9322
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