[97527] in RedHat Linux List
Re: aic7890 and 5.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Whipple)
Tue Nov 3 14:23:15 1998
Date: Tue, 03 Nov 1998 14:18:45 -0500
From: "Fred Whipple" <fwwhippl@mindless.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, jbodnar@tivoli.com
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>I've got a Dell 410 with onboard aic7890/aic7880s. I download the the bootdisks
>from the aic directory on ftp.redhat.com and had no problem with the install.
>But when I go to boot it can't find the harddrive.
>
>I saw the kernel rpms with the new driver support but I'm not sure which ones I
>need or how I go about installing them.
(Sorry this is a couple days late.)
I too tried that disk set and it allowed me to install RH5.1 but not boot
it. So I was in the same boat. Advanced System Labs (www.aslab.com) has
built a custom RH5.1 boot disk available at:
ftp://ftp.aslab.com/support/boot_images/boot.adaptec
This disk, unlike the "other" RH5.1 boot disk that will let you install the
OS, will actually let you boot your machine. At the LILO: prompt, you'd
want to type:
boot linux root=/dev/sdX (X is the root partition)
And you'll be booted. Once booted, you can install the updated kernel RPM's
you downloaded and then be sure to point LILO to the new kernel and
reinstall LILO. This is how I did it anyway.
Good luck!
-Fred
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