Re: Debian 1.3 with AHA2842B

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Nathan E Norman wrote:

> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998 gzp@sea.hu wrote:
> 
> : I have a problem, installing debian 1.3 with AHA2842B VLB controller.
> : 
> : When I'm booting the root.bin, I see this on the screen:
> : In swapper task - not syncing.
> 
> You need a different rescue disk kernel.  Compile in the Adaptec SCSI
> drivers ONLY and it should work fine.

  I'm using Debian 1.3, and had to build a custom boot disk because the
  probing in the regular install boot disk would somehow touch the Adaptec
  SCSI controller and reboot the PC.  This was actually very easy to do using
  another Linux machine.  The custom kernel and instructions are at:

   ftp://ftp.phys.ocean.dal.ca/users/rhogee/Debian/

  Beware, my CDROM is not SCSI so I did not compile that in.  I have since
  recompiled one with SCSI CD-ROM support in:

   ftp://ftp.phys.ocean.dal.ca/users/rhogee/Debian/new-version

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