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On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 07:18, Peter Permentier wrote: |
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> Everything looks ok, and the online intall guide is pretty neat but for a |
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> minor detail: It would seem the entire installation assumes a complete IDE |
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> setup. My system is a 100%scsi system and i would like to report the |
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> following problem(s) i ran into. Perhaps these may assist you in tweaking |
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> the install scripts for the next release. When unpacking and running the |
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> stage1 tarball (I've tried a bit later using the stage3 tarball, but had |
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> same result) the scsi devices are detected during bootup, and all seems |
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> fine, but the /dev dir has no block devices set up for scsi (or so it |
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> seemed in my install) |
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please see below :) |
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> I'm not too familiar with linux yet to know if this is a general issue or |
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> if it was specific to this machine, and since that's the only machine i own |
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> that's SCSI enabled i cannot make the test on a different build as of yet. |
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heh, not to worry, at least scsi is reasonable well spread, unlike other |
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hardware:) |
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> Also, I've noticed that once the installation complete, when i reboot, the |
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> kernel loads the correct scsi module, but again doesn't find/create any |
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> /dev/sd?? block devices, and consequently fails to mount the root |
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> partition. |
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hmm, i'd advise making sure the scsi modules are compiled into the |
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kernel, not as modules, makes life a lot easier i've found. |
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> Could this be related? |
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> Do you perhaps have a suggestion how i might alleviate this problem? |
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> wfg, |
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eh? |
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> Peter Permentier |
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> P.S. FYI The system in question is a dual processor intel machine. The |
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> disks are UW scsi3 connected to 2 Adaptec AH-29160 adapters (3 disks per |
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> adapter). |
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nice. |
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> Should you require more specific info, please do not hesitate to ask. |
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o.k., in the cd installation documentation it says, |
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Now, if you want to be able to access any SCSI hardware that wasn't detected |
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during the PCI autodetection process, you'll need to load the appropriate |
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modules from /lib/modules, again using modprobe: |
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Code listing 2 |
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# modprobe aic7xxx |
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# modprobe sr_mod |
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# modprobe sd_mod |
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Could you try this for me, and see if it works? |
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Cheers, |
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Colin Morey |