[23489] in Athena Bugs
linux installer tries to load aic7xxx incorrectly
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angie Kelic)
Wed Aug 6 21:45:17 2003
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2003 21:45:17 -0400 (EDT)
From: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
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I have a machine, a rather old machine, with a scsi bus
that requires the aic7xxx_old scsi module to be loaded.
I can use the graphical configuration screen in the phase
1 installer to load that module. It finds the device and
all is happy. If I look at the output screens under
control-alt-# I can see that it in fact does see my hard
drive and cd-rom drive on the scsi bus after the module
is loaded.
It then proceeds to the phase 2 installer. After the
"custom [y/n]" prompt, anything I type is followed by
a "Trying the aic7xxxx driver" message at which point
the world breaks with
"No IDE drive found; must use a SCSI driver"
If I try to tell it to load the aic7xxx_old driver at that
point it tells me it's already loaded. There's nothing
I can do to proceed.
I suspect it is calling the aic7xxxx driver (which doesn't
work with my scsi bus) in error. But I can't seem to
get it to get it to go past this point with the drivers
it already has loaded.
