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Re: Detecting Buslogic Flashpoint Controller with RedHat 4.2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leonard N. Zubkoff)
Fri Aug 8 00:23:47 1997
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 13:09:05 -0700
From: "Leonard N. Zubkoff" <lnz@dandelion.com>
To: fah@uhheph.phys.hawaii.edu
CC: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu, jimd@starshine.org, drew@PoohSticks.org
In-reply-to: <Pine.OSF.3.91.970807090651.2583A-100000@uhhepk.phys.hawaii.edu>
(message from Fred Harris on Thu, 7 Aug 1997 09:21:32 -1000 (HST))
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
