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Install on a Pentium-Laptop: msg#00205

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Subject: Install on a Pentium-Laptop

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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