Hi, Dudes!
I tried some installation on my old Innovace-Laptop which has an
PentiumI-Processor, VL-Bus and an Adaptec AIC-6360 SCSI-Controller.
There is also an IDE-Bus (for the harddisk), but I need the
SCSI-Controller to install from (an external SCSI-)CD-Rom.
Unfortunately, the BIOS isn't able to Boot from SCSI, so the only way to
get the debian/agnula-installer to work is to boot with floppies.
Therefore I copied the floppy images root.img and boot.img from the
./install/floppy/ directory of the agnula-cd to the floppies and started
booting.
The first time, the kernel didn't recognize my SCSI-Controller - just as
I thought. I had also trouble with the installation of Deli-Linux 0.6
because of that, but I found a sollution on
http://savage.net.au/Linux/html/linux-win95.html. The article discribes,
that the kernel needs a parameter like aha152x=0x340,0xB,7,1 to
recognize the Controller. At least - this was a sollution for the
2.2.x-Kernel Deli-Linux' based on.
The 2.4.x-Kernel didn't even notice, that I typed a parameter! dmesg
doesn't list "aha152x=0x340,0xB,7,1" as a parameter that was given to
the kernel. Neither in "normal" nor in "expert"-mode.
What am I doing wrong?
Does the 2.4-Kernel use different parameters for the aha152x?
Doesn't the installation-kernel of debain tesitng support aha152x? (That
would be a bit funny, 'cause it's listed as a "example parameter" for
the kernel to boot)
Greetings
Mitsch
PS: I know, that it's mainly a problem with the debian-installer and not
with agnula itself. But I'm not subscribed in the debain-mailing-list
and agnula is the distribution I want to install. If I discovered a bug
with my problem, I promise I let debian know about it! :)
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