Re: recs1440.bin boot fails in SCSI init
On Tue, 7 Sep 1999, Jim Ziegler wrote:
> On Fri, 03 Sep 1999, 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:
>
> I am having the same problem with an Industrial Computer Source system.
I had problems mailing to <jcz@linux1.com1one.net>, so I'll post this to
the list in hopes that you'll see it. (BTW, this is all a bit OT for
debian-devel; any further discussion should be on debian-user - sorry for
the cross-post.)
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The problem you are having is a "feature" of the Debian 2.1 boot disks.
The following is from the 2.1 release notes, which can be viewed at
<http://www.debian.org/releases/slink>.
Rescue Floppy
Users of Adaptec 2940 SCSI cards, and other SCSI controllers with the
aic7xxx chipset, will probably experience problems with the standard
boot-floppies. A kind user has made some experiments which many users
find to solve their problems. There are two alternative Rescue
Floppies for the i386 architecture at ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/.
There are also replacement kernels in that location, which you can
use to simply replace the existing kernels on the boot-floppies.
Hope that helps,
tony
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