Re: Bad install with SCSI (sym53c8xx - no hard drive found)
Some more data. This is what is printed to the console:
[...]
scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card)
NCR53c406a: no available ports found
sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0
Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card!
IBM MCA SCSI: No microchannel-bus support present -> Aborting.
megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999)
aec671x_detect:
3w-xxxx: tw_findcards(): No cards found.
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
[...]
Cheers,
Andrew
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:03:10PM +0000, andrew@acooke.org wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When I boot from CD (2.2r0) to install I am told (after configuring
> the keyboard) that no hard drives are present. This is not true - the
> machine has two SCSI disks hanging off a Symbios controller (sym53c8xx
> - 53c1010 ultra3).
>
> The machine came with Red Hat pre-installed (and it boots/works!), so
> this hardware is supported by Gnu/Linux (and presumably BIOS is OK).
> So how do I install Debian? I can still boot to Red Hat and have
> cable modem cnxn and CD writer, so could burn more up-to-date CDs if
> necessary (for example). My plan was to put Debian on the other disk
> and then delete Red Hat once it was working.
>
> Looking in various FAQs, nothing mentions Symbios, but another make
> with suspiciously smilar numbers (can't find the reference now) was
> supported with no boot paramateres, if that makes any difference...
>
> Any suggestions/help appreciated. Thanks,
> Andrew
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