Slackware 9.0 and scsi problem

[Shawn Tayler]

One thing to remember is that Slackware changed to an ISOLINUX install diskette setup starting with v8.1.  I've been running mostly SCSI on all my systems for the past 12 years with no extra difficulty installing Slack on any of them.  

It sounds like you have a 2742 EISA controller, and I'll bet it doesn't support a bootable CDROM, I have a couple older machines with 1542's with the same problem.  I used the DOS startup method, outlined in the isolinux directory on CD #2 of Slackware v9.  The 5 disk requirement to do isolinux from a floppy start is a bit much and probably the only peeve I have with Slack.  But I digress.

The DOS startup worked quite well and I simply used the adaptec.s kernel as vmlinuz and I replaced the initrd.img file in the isolinux directory with the initrd.img file in the root directory of CD #1 Slackware v9, the one on CD2 lacked a few things that made the installation much easier.  The README.TXT on CD #2 isolinux directory has all the directions.

Shawn

On Wed, 21 May 2003 08:11:08 -0400 "John Finkenbine" <john.finkenbine at mcgill.ca> professed:

> > On 05/20/03 14:13, John Finkenbine wrote:
> > > Okay, I tried saying at the boot prompt:  "ramdisk aic7xxx_old" but
> > > I got the same result as before, i.e., no scsi controller detected,
> > > but an apparent RAID array detected.  For what it's worth, I see
> > > messages during booting such as:
> > > 
> > > kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno =
> > > 2 .... md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2 .... md:
> > > Autodetecting RAID arrays
> > > 
> > > I have gotten the same messages no matter what boot parameters I
> > > have tried.  Not sure what to try next.
> > 
> > A different distro?
> > 
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> > L. Friedman                       	       netllama at linux-sxs.org Linux
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> As Lonni says, I *could* try a different distro.  But, I have the feeling 
> tha Slack 9.0 really ought to work, if I only knew what I was doing 
> wrong.  I am most intrigued by Ted's recollection that the aic7xxx 
> module has changed and that I need to use an older version.  I looked 
> at all the docs I could find on the 9.0 CD, but saw no mention of 
> changes to this module.  Ted couldn't remember for sure what was the 
> name of the older version and I have had no luck finding out on my 
> own.  Any ideas what the name is and where it is to be found during 
> installation?
> 
> Or, I could just use Slack 8.0, which works fine, but that would be too 
> easy.  :-)
> 
> John
> 
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