[3377] in linux-scsi channel archive
Re: NCR53C8XX driver for COMPAQ controllers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mr. James W. Laferriere Network En)
Sat Feb 21 19:42:35 1998
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 17:20:40 -0800 (PST)
From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer" <babydr@nwrain.net>
Reply-To: "Mr. James W. Laferriere Network Engineer" <babydr@nwrain.net>
To: Gerard Roudier <groudier@club-internet.fr>
cc: "Manjunath.J.J" <manjujj@cdc.bflsl.soft.net>, linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.980219222009.534A-100000@localhost>
Hello Gerard & Manjunath,
Another method that involves using your Slackware Style
boot disk & the Rescue disk from Slackware .
boot using Gerard's Slakboot disk,
load the Salckware Rescue disk,
login as root
type in the below, to show all known partitions on
the available drives,
fdisk -l
From here goto town.... ;-)
On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> 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.
Hth, JimL
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