can't dinstall
Hi,
Trying to set up a debian box. There is an odd device built in, it is a
scanner card with a NCR scsi chip, but only to be used for the scanner.
>From the file:///usr/doc/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO.gz
4.2.16. Pro Audio Spectrum (`pas16=')
The PAS16 uses a NCR5380 SCSI chip, and newer models support jumper-
less configuration. The boot argument is of the form:
pas16=iobase,irq
I tried this. With all boot disks I found on the 2.0 Official CD, there is
the same behaviour:
- when I boot with pas16=0x388,255 syslinux fails to load after writing
'loading root.bin......'
- when I boot with pas16=0x388 or without arguments the scsi part of the
kernel tries to talk to that odd device and gets confused, scsi0: 1 hosts,
but fails with the last message 'scsi command could have been completed
before aborting'.
- when I boot with pas16=0x220 (which is wrong, just something to confuse
the driver) when looking for scsi 'waiting 5 seconds', then 'aborting',
then it hangs again.
I created a new kernel on my other computer, including initrd and ramdisk
and iso9660 and cdrom support, and finally this way i could install up to
a certain point up to where I would be able to install the base system.
but then it gets very depressing:
- I can mount the cd. I can select from a list of directories where the
base files reside, but then dselect just exits (error code 100, as Alt-F3
tells me) and starts again black and white, letting me select color mode.
- There is no tar program on the rescue disks.
Have I forgotten to compile in something desperately needed to install the
base system?
Can I disable the kernel scsi detection on the boot prompt?
Can you tell me what I should try? (I don't want to spend half an hour
with the screwdriver when I want to use the scanner.)
Helplessly yours
--
Lukas Eppler (godot)
http://www.fear.ch
telnet://soil.fear.ch:3333
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