[3373] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: NCR53C8XX driver for COMPAQ controllers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gerard Roudier)
Sat Feb 21 10:06:19 1998
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 23:11:11 +0100 (MET)
From: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
To: "Manjunath.J.J" <manjujj@cdc.bflsl.soft.net>
cc: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0y59Pi-0002APC@cdc.bflsl.soft.net>
On Wed, 18 Feb 1998, Manjunath.J.J wrote:
> Hello again,
> Thank you for giving me the urls. I was able to download
> the driver. However I was not able to use it with the Compaq NCR-875
> controller.
> I was able to install LINUX but the system just refused to boot
> after that.
>
> Are there any drivers available for Compaq-NCR53C8XX controllers ?
If you've been able to install the system, that means that the kernel
you used for the installation process has a driver that works
for the Compaq.
In order to be able to boot your system from disk, you should have
installed a boot loader that knows where the kernel file is located on
the disk prior to completing the installation process.
The most oftenly used boot loader under Linux is 'lilo'. 'lilo' uses
the BIOS to load the kernel.
If your system is properly installed, then it should be possible to boot
it up from a diskette or from DOS using 'loadlin', and then to install
'lilo'.
A recent Slackware diskette and very probably the latest I've made
available (as disk image) at linux.wauug.org/pub/roudier should work
for you.
You just need to know the linux pathname that corresponds to your
Linux root partition and have to enter the following pattern after
the lilo prompt:
mount root=/dev/sda2 ro
(/dev/sda2 is an example that points to the 2nd partition of scsi disk a)
If you donnot remember exactly in which partition your system has been
installed, you can try do deduce it from DOS/fdisk partition list, or
just may try severall possible pathes for the root device until the
kernel will accept to finish properly its initialisations.
Gerard.
