Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init
I've got anunofficial installation diskset which is set up specifically
for the aic7xxx driver, that will most likely take care of your problem.
You can find it at <http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.19/>.
On Fri, Sep 03, 1999 at 07:05:21PM -0700, Tom Kuiper wrote:
> While booting an AST Premmia LX P/60 from a resc1440.bin or resc1440-safe.bin
> disk (images from the official 2.1 CD-ROM) the booting hangs during the SCSI
> initialization. It gets this far:
> ...
> (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 14/0
> (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
> (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions.
>
> The same computer boots fine from a previous COL 1.1 kernel on its (SCSI)
> hard disk. In that case the SCSI driver is identified as aic7xxx.
>
> An almost identical machine (more meomory, IDE hard disk) works fine from a
> Slackware kernel which is a little over a year old and also uses the aic7xxx
> driver.
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