[2596] in linux-scsi channel archive
fdomain and aha152x problems adding ZIP drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Rumball)
Mon Oct 6 11:07:31 1997
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 10:54:58 -0400
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: John Rumball <rumbalj@gov.on.ca>
Cc: jer@isys.ca
Good day,
I have Linux 2.0.29 (SlackWare) installed and running on my system which
consists of an AHA-2920 controller and a SCSI Seagate hard drive as my boot
disk (/dev/sda).
To this configuration I am trying to add a Zip drive & Zip Zoom (AHA-1520)
controller. I am having some difficulty with this.
In order to get the FDOMAIN (2920) controller recognized to begin with, I
had to use an "append" statement in my /etc/lilo.conf. So for the Zip
drive, I tried adding another append statement (after the first one) for my
AHA-1520. On the first boot-up following this change, the boot sequence
does not find my FDOMAIN controller, but DOES find my AHA-1520, and then
halts with a Kernel Panic message. I assume this is because it cannot find
a kernel image on my hard disk's Linux partition (/dev/sda2).
Questions that come to mind are:
1) Am I allowed to have two "append" statements in lilo.conf?
2) If so, is there a particular order they should be in?
3) Is the "append" statement in lilo.conf the only way in which I
can get the kernel to find my SCSI controllers?
For your information, my /etc/lilo.conf is something like this:
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot = /dev/sda
delay = 50
vga = normal # force sane state
append = "fdomain=0x6100,10,7,1"
append = "aha152x=0x140,9,7,1"
# DOS bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/sda1
label = Win95
table = /dev/sda
# DOS bootable partition config ends
# ORIGINAL Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda2
label = LinOLD
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# ORIGINAL Linux bootable partition config ends
#
# Added Oct.2/97 jr
# NEW Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage
root = /dev/sda2
label = LinNEW
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# NEW Linux bootable partition config ends
Thank you, in advance, for any suggestions you may have.
John
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