Re: Install problem - Locks up during boot off of rescue disk
Thanks for the tip. These disks didn't work, but there was another link to someone
else who had come up with the solution. This one worked for me. (I don't have the
link handy because I do not have web access from this system.
Doug
"Thomas R. Shemanske" wrote:
> The problem is a conflict between the aic7xxx driver for the 2940 card
> and the other SCSI drivers on the standard rescue disk.
>
> See http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.15/
> for a set of install rescue and driver disks which should get you over
> the hump.
>
> Best,
>
> T. R. Shemanske
>
> > Subject: Install problem - Locks up during boot off of rescue disk.
> > Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:55:38 -0700
> > From: Doug Thistlethwaite <doug@dupreeinc.com>
> > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to install debian onto a Dell Optiplex GXM5133 system with
> > 32 Meg of memory and a Adaptec AHA-2940 bios v1.16 PCI scsi controller.
> >
> > I am installing off of floppys with the intention finishing the install
> > via ftp.
> >
> > The rescue disk appears to boot fine and I get to the point where you
> > press <ENTER> to boot for F1..F? for instructions. When I press enter
> > everything looks normal until it gets to the scsi0 lines.... The system
> > locks up at this point. The last three lines are:
> >
> > (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X scsi host adapter> found at PCI 12/0
> > (scsi0) Narrow Channel, scsi ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
> > (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 412 instructions downloaded
> >
> > The system locks up at this point. What should I do?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Doug Thistlethwaite
> >
>
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