kubuntu and scsi drives

[Net Llama!]

On 11/08/2005 06:15 PM, HarryG wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 November 2005 10:57 am, Net Llama! wrote:
>> On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, HarryG wrote:
>> > I know some distros have problems booting from a scsi drive.  Is Ubuntu
>> > one of them?
>>
>> huh?  I don't know of any Linux distros that have ever had this problem
>> for years.  Perhaps with an ancient 2.0.x kernel where SCSI support was
>> weak, but certainly not anything in the past 5-6 years.
> 
> I tried to first install Mepis, but at boot, I would get a kernel panic.  I 
> had successfully installed it before with the same disk on my laptop.
> 
> I tried Kubuntu (sorry about the K part, Loni.  I am old and lazy).  It 
> couldn't even find the drives while installing.  The disk checked out OK with 
> mdsum, but I will try a fresh download and see what happens.
> 
> Couldn't find anything on the FAQ's or manual about this.

What kind of SCSI controller are you using?

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