Amazing installation. SCSI problems

["Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren" <aeypil@teleline.es>]

    Heavy Xmas to all of you

 

    I'm new in linux but not in dealing with the installation process of an OS (DOS, OS2, WINDOWS 9x,..), but Debian defeats me.

    First some technical data about my system:

    - Processor:       i486 dx4-100

    - Motherboard:    VLB-PCI, American Megatrends BIOS

    - HDD's:             IDE 600MB Seagate ST3630A

                             SCSI 4.5GB Seagate ST34520W

    - Controllers:       IDE PCI on board (unknown)

                             Adaptec AHA-2940U/AHA-2940UW PCI

    - O.S.:               Windows 98

    The problen is that LILO can't detect the SCSI hard drive. When I reboot the system after installation process the bootting program gets into a neverending loop and fill the screen with the following messages:

 

        host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting

        bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0

        host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder

        bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0

        ...

 

    Amazingly, the installation program detects properly the SCSI HD, but only if I launch it from a DOS session under Windows. Any other way to install debian fails in the same way.

    In any case, the result is that I've got debian installed in my computer but I can't run it 'cos it doesn't recognize the hard drive where it was installed.

 

    As we say in Spain:

¡¡¡ SOCORRO !!!

 

    Sorry for my english, and happy christmas again.