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Re: Detecting Buslogic Flashpoint Controller with RedHat 4.2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Harris)
Fri Aug 8 00:23:45 1997
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 10:27:41 -1000 (HST)
From: Fred Harris <fah@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu>
To: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, jimd@starshine.org, drew@PoohSticks.org
In-Reply-To: <199708072009.NAA06585@dandelion.com>
Hi Leonard,
I think that I tried that among all the other things that I have
tried, but I will try it again. Note that the message says that no SCSI
controllers were found. Should the Redhat Kernal be able to detect the
SCSI as is? Thanks.
Regards,
Fred
On Thu, 7 Aug 1997, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:21:32 -1000 (HST)
> From: Fred Harris <fah@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu>
>
> The problem is that I am unable to boot because linux is
> unable to detect my SCSI controller.
>
> I have a Micron Pentium Pro with an IDE hard drive and CDROM.
> I have a Buslogic Flashpoint 930 SCSI controller and a Nomai 540
> removable hard drive. I bought RedHat 4.2 linux and completed the
> installation successfully. RedHat 4.2 has support for the Buslogic
> SCSI controller. I partitioned the Nomai and installed linux there.
> At the end of the installation, I chose to put Lilo on a floppy. I
> don't want to partition my EIDE drive or change the MBR on the EIDE drive.
>
> When I tried to boot from the floppy, I got 1's and 0's. I
> had my doubts about using Lilo anyway with a mixed EIDE and SCSI
> system because of all the restrictions of Lilo. I sent mail to RedHat
> support about my problem but realy didn't get much in the way of useful
> help.
>
> I did boot the installation floppy in "rescue" mode. I was
> able to mount the Nomai drive and look at the file system, which is fine.
> So the installation was able to see the Buslogic controller and Nomai
> harddrive ok. When booting with the installation disk, you are asked
> if you have SCSI and what type of SCSI, so detection is not automatic.
>
> I then tried using LOADLIN. I added a folder on my C: (EIDE) drive
> with vmlinuz and loadlin. This works. LOADLIN uncompresses my vmlinuz and
> finds everything on my system but the SCSI. It says that "0 SCSI controllers
> were found" and then goes into panic mode since it can't access /boot on
> sda2. (I put root on the 2nd partition).
>
> So I have been struggling with this for over 2 weeks. Please help.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Have you tried setting the "Map Removable As Fixed" option in AutoSCSI?
> Without that, ths BIOS will not make the removable drive accessible as a BIOS
> device, which could certainly account for not being able to boot from it.
>
> Leonard
>
