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Re: Adaptec 2940UW Problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David M. Drukker)
Fri Nov 22 16:35:39 1996
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 11:13:58 -0600 (CST)
From: "David M. Drukker" <drukker@mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
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cc: "Dataforge <20516/0/mth/24/burl>" <forsyth@wchat.on.ca>,
"David M. Drukker" <drukker@mundo.eco.utexas.edu>
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Dear Allen,
Thanks for all the good advice, I am making progress but remain short.
You might know the answer to this question so I thought that I would ask
you. If you don't know off hand and don't have time to investigate,
please just say so.
There are a pair of config files that correspond to the new kernal images
in the same ftp directory. I don't know what to do with them. They look
like the files that make config would create, but I am not sure. And, if
they are, can I just put them somewhere and then run make dep? Or are
these patches of some type?
-David M. Drukker
drukker@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
ECB 1.116
Department of Economics
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, Texas 78712
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Allen Francom wrote:
>
>
> Um,
>
> Again, I'm not hip to the 4.0 thing yet, however...
>
> When you copied over the kernel image from the floppy to the hard disk,
> did you edit /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo ?
>
> And then reboot ? And it didn't work ?
>
> In this case, I would explore "kernel parameters" which you can put
> into /etc/lilo.conf to tell the kernel to do things like look for
> a particular adapter at a particular IRQ and Base IO Address.
>
> THX
> -AEF
>
> - I guess, my point is you did the right thing and you're probably right
> at the threshold of having it work
> -------
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, David M. Drukker wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I have the Adaptec 2940UW, and although I have carefully followed the
> > directions in the Errata for the RH 4.0, I am not able to boot from the
> > hard disk. Using the kernal images discusses in the intel Errata I can
> > boot from a floppy and that kernal finds my SCSI Adapter and correctly
> > identifies my hard drive but even when I copy over that vmlinuz and rerun
> > lilo, I can not boot from the hard disk. I don't actually understand why
> > I can boot from the floppy and not from the hard disk using the same
> > kernal image, but I am resigned to rebuilding the kernal using 2.0.25 and
> > hoping that the bugs are out.
> >
> > But I am new to linux, so don't take my word for it.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> > -David M. Drukker
> > drukker@mundo.eco.utexas.edu
> > ECB 1.116
> > Department of Economics
> > University of Texas at Austin
> > Austin, Texas 78712
> >
> > On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Dataforge <20516/0/mth/24/burl> wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, 21 Nov 1996, Allen Francom wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Oh.
> > > >
> > > > If it does boot from floppy,
> > > > and has been installed to the SCSI drive,
> > > > AND you can boot with /dev/(scsi device)
> > > > so that you're started...
> > > >
> > > > Remember to go to /usr/src/(linux) and rebuild the kernel with
> > > > adaptec 2940 support, and reinstall the kernel.
> > >
> > > Good day,
> > >
> > > I'm thinking of getting the adaptec 2940UK SCSI adapter, I have RH4.0 so
> > > will I still have to compile the kernel? I thought I saw it in the
> > > install options? (If I'm confused ... just slap me. :-)
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> >
> >
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