Re: Debian hangs during install
On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, John McLaren wrote:
> Help Needed!
>
> After looking around for a 486 to dedicate to linux, a 5-year-old
> "ex-bleeding-edge" server became available cheaply, containing an
> EISA mb and Ultrastor 22CA EISA ESDI cacheing controller running
> two Micropolis drives--seemed like a good buy at the time
> (performs flawlessly on dos/windows).
>
> I turned off cacheing and shadowing and started to load the latest
> Debian boot/root disks. All seemed to go as per the book--hard
> drive/controller identified ok etc--until it found 1 scsi host,
> identified as an Ultrastor 24F. Not surprisingly, it could get no
> response, eventually tried to reset it, and hung at:
> "US14F: reset: called"
>
> Is there some simple command or parameter to give at the "boot:"
> prompt which will stop the program looking for scsi hardware? All
> I could find in help files were suggestions for what to do if your
> installed scsi card wasn't found--not the other way 'round!
I believe you can specify a non-existant address, and it "won't see it".
Just specify it like to something to an address that you KNOW is not
used!!!
I had a similiar problem with my sbpcd YEARS ago, when I tried YGGSDRASIL
Linux. I threw that CD away the next day, BTW :)
Daniel
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