[20467] in Athena Bugs
problem the new (beta) I/S ALS installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Tue Jul 9 16:49:15 2002
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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:49:13 -0400
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
To: Athena Bugs list <bugs@mit.edu>
Cc: Tom Cavin <cavin@mit.edu>
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Hi again,
After a quick consult, the behavior looks just like I have the wrong NIC.
My initial thought was that we could just use our spare 3-Com boomerang
card and get this working. Unfortunately, this system has a new bus and
the old card won't fit.
As I see it, I now have three options. I can purchase a new boomerang NIC
for the new bus, try to get the driver for the on-board NIC compiled into
the boot floppy kernel, or install the hard disk in another system and do a
brain transplant.
Any recommendations?
Thanks,
--Tom
Tom Cavin writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem with the ALS installer.
>
> The behavior that I get is that the POST stuff goes (for a long time) and
> then I get a boot prompt welcoming me to MITs RedHat installer. I hit
> return at the boot prompt and it loads initrc.d and vmlinux starts to bring
> a system up and then pops into the RedHat installer and asks me to tell it
> where the media is. The only choice given is "Local CDROM".
>
> From what I understand, the installer should not need local installation
> media under normal circumstances.
>
> The floppy I'm using is the athena.img in:
>
> $ ls -l /mit/bootkit/rhlinux/
> total 2973
> -rw-r----- 1 3622 mit 16896 May 17 2000 3c905c-tpo.fl
> -rw------- 1 9796 mit 16896 Feb 5 2000 3c90x.fl
> -r-------- 1 9796 mit 2126 May 31 18:58 INSTRUCTIONS
> drwx------ 2 9796 mit 2048 May 31 18:58 RCS
> -rw------- 1 9796 mit 1474560 May 29 17:41 athena.img
> -rw------- 1 9796 mit 1529856 Jun 5 18:31 athena.iso
>
> The beginning of the process does claim to be the RedHat 7.3 installer.
>
> This is on a Dell PowerEdge 2650. (Two CPUs, SCSI disk, 3 NICs. I can dig
> up more specs if necessary.) The system is currently loaded with Dell's
> version of RedHat Linux.
>
> Is this behavior normal? If so, what should it be telling me? Do I need
> to use special drivers or anything?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Tom
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