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Re: RedHat 4.0 Cdrom Install Need SCSI Parameters - Help

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Fri Oct 25 12:10:28 1996

Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 11:38:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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In-Reply-To: <9610111553.AA22808@sc10.dseg.ti.com>
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Michael halped you get all of this working, right?

Erik

On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Terry Eck wrote:

> This is addressed to anyone who has updated using the single boot
> RedHat 4.0 Install from CDROM. When I boot up linux I have to specify
> a particular address for my aha1542 controller. In the past at the
> LILO prompt I've input "linux aha1542=0x130" and when the kernel boots
> it says it found my scsi device, disk, and cdrom. However, during the
> RedHat 4.0 boot when I issue the same LILO command the kernel does
> not see any scsi devices. Something is wrong. Also, when I'm in the
> install program of RedHat 4.0 I select local-CDROM and scsi. If I tell
> the install to perform Autoprobe it does not fine any scsi device. When
> I provide the parameter aha1542=0x130 the install program cannot
> find my scsi device. Nothing seems to work for the scsi. 
> 
> I'd be interested in knowing if anyone has been able to install 
> using a cdrom which required either 1) LILO prompt input or 2) inputing
> parameters to set the scsi controller during install. It does not work
> for me. Either there is a bug or I'm doing something wrong. 
> 
> Any help out there?
> 
> Regards,
> Terry
> _____________________________________________________________________________
> Terry Eck                   eck@sc10.dseg.ti.com                (214)575-6196
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