Re: potato install w/ aic7880

[Chris Baker <baker@treyarch.com>]

sjk <sjk@dredel.com> writes:

> I am having a terrible time trying to get potato to install on a
> machine with an aic7880 scsi controller. The current rescue.bin hangs
> at loading sym53c416 - just after the aic78xxx mods. I have tried
> compiling a new kernel with the options listed in the install doc -
> and the install begins, but 1) it can't write the tmp keyboard config, 
> and 2) the driver script fails. I can't seem to mount any of the
> driver disks to update the modules.tgz file - what file system do
> these disks use?? I have tried re-writing them several times.

Have you tried passing

aic7xxx=noprobe

as a parameter to the kernel?

HTH,

cbb