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post-4.0 install, SCSI HD not found
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Morgan Fletcher)
Thu Nov 7 20:41:05 1996
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From: Morgan Fletcher <morgan@geoworks.com>
Date: 07 Nov 1996 16:56:50 -0800
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I just installed 4.0 on my PC at work. It's got an Adaptec 1515 SCSI card,
which (I guess) doesn't have a BIOS. It can't be auto-probed and the kernel
needs to be fed a couple parameters for the adapter to be recognized.
There are no IDE devices on the machine, and I'm installing from a SCSI
CD-ROM.
When prompted for additional SCSI parameters during install, I input:
aha152x=0x340,11,7
(Those values are correct, to my knowledge.) The SCSI CD-ROM and hard disk
(an HP) are recognized, and the distribution appears to install cleanly. I
then proceed through X config, network config and LILO config. I choose to
have LILO installed on my MBR, launching either dos (/dev/sda1) or linux
(/dev/sda2).
I then let it reboot. Here's the tail end of the boot messages:
FDC 0 is an 8272A
md driver 0.35 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:02
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:02
I tried inputting:
linux aha152x=0x340,11,7
...at the LILO prompt, but to no avail.
Perhaps the /etc/lilo.conf that's getting created on /dev/sda2's / does not
contain the SCSI parameters I enter during the installation procedure?
Help?
morgan "registration card is in the mail"
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