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Installing on Adaptec 7890, no IDE
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Mon Oct 5 15:59:28 1998
To: linux-scsi@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@hpc.uh.edu>
Date: 05 Oct 1998 12:16:52 -0500
I'm trying to bring up RedHat 5.1 on a SCSI-only machine. The machine has
an Asus P2B-LS motherboard, with onboard Adaptec AIC-7890 chipset. (Nice
board, really.)
I obtained the boot and rescue images from ftp.dialnet.net and using them
managed to install RedHat just fine. Unfortunately the installed vmlinux
and initrd can't talk to the SCSI adaptor. The machine boots, fails to
detect the SCSI controller. The last messages displayed are:
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Loading aic7xxx module
scsi : 0 hosts.
/lib/aic7xxx.0: init_module: Device or resource busy
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
I pretty much expected that, so I booted with the boot image the RedHat
installer produced for me. That had the same result. So I booted from the
dialnet boot image. That forces me into the RedHat install. So I tried
using the dialnet rescue image (by booting with the dialnet boot, then
typing rescue) and the system fails to detect any SCSI hosts and hangs with
'unable to open initial console'.
I've basically tried all combinations of booting with the RedHat and
dialnet disks and the best I can do is get into the RedHat install, which
can load the proper module and see the drives fine. Is there any way to
get from there to a properly booted machine?
Thanks,
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