Re: install help with a SCSI CDROM on a 486
> ummm... does it say something like "no pci bios found" in the
> bootup messages? I had a compaq 486 that had scsi and net built
> in and never could get linux to run on it. Compaq had done something
> funny with the pci bios. It was located above normal accessable
> memory. There was a tool to relocate the pci bios down to where it
> was supposed to go (available for download from compaq). This was
> back in the deb 1.1 or 1.2 days (just after the switch to elf). The
it says something that "no pci found" as well is correct since it only
has ISA, the SCSI card is not builtin but was a bought Adaptec. The
program is called movepci & you need to load movepci.sys with DOS
prior to loading Linux. A common problem also with Netware since
this patch was originally for it.
I really don't think that this is the problem since the SCSI card is a
typical ISA card(i.e. IRQ 10, mem add 0x140, SCSI adapter#7).
The problem is that Linux doesn't find on autoprobe and you must pass
the parameters to it. The problem is that I cannot find a straight
definitive
answer on where this is done.
This is starting to remind me of trying to get an honest answer out of a
politician.
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