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IceDigger
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 Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:06 pm Post subject: Linux Newbie needs help installing Gentoo |
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I have an all scsi system and cannot get the iso i downloaded to boot so I can setup Gentoo 
On another of my computer which is all ide the cd boots up just fine. I dont want it on my ide system though.
Any clue how I can get this to install on my scsi system? |
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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| I have SCSI disk and exactly the same problem .... altough I can boot from iso I don't have a clue how to push fdisk to partition my disk ... It says there is no device /dev/sda .... tried to install gentoo on my win machine with VMware and it goes smooth with virtual EIDE disk ... Is there anything special one have to do to make SCSI disk to work ? |
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therobot
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | Now, if you want to be able to access any SCSI hardware that wasn't detected during the PCI autodetection process, you'll need to load the appropriate modules from /lib/modules, again using modprobe:
Code listing 2
# modprobe aic7xxx
# modprobe sr_mod
# modprobe sd_mod
Above, we modprobe the aic7xxx SCSI driver and then make sure that SCSI CD-ROM (sr_mod) and disk (sd_mod) support is loaded. |
Look to the manual.
did you do this? |
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rac
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:27 pm Post subject: |
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It doesn't sound like you two have the same problems.
IceDigger, can you boot from any CD on that SCSI system? What fails in the boot process?
changed, you should be in better shape. What SCSI host controller are you using and are the kernel modules required to access it loaded? The install guide is your friend.
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IceDigger
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yea, it boots cd's just fine, redhat, windows, etc. It's a yamaha 16x10x40x scsi drive on a LSI 64bit pci u160 adapter.
Error msg: ISOLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 isolinux: Disk error 00, drive F0
Boot failed: press a key to retry |
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Guest
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm the point is my scsi host WAS detected  btw it's a TEKRAM DC-310 Sorry I didn't start a separate thread but if anyone is willing to help ... Thank You in advance |
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rac
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| IceDigger wrote: | | Error msg: ISOLINUX 1.67 2002-02-03 isolinux: Disk error 00, drive F0 |
If you have a floppy drive on that system, you might want to check out http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/. I haven't used it personally, but it looks like it might allow you to bypass the bootloader on the CD, which doesn't appear to support your hardware.
You might also want to file a bug report at https://bugs.gentoo.org, describing your hardware configuration and that error message, and then hopefully the next version of the ISO will work for you more smoothly.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| thx>> therobot I forgot to modprobe sd_mod .... |
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IceDigger
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Whats modprobe and how do you use it? |
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rac
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| Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2002 8:03 pm Post subject: |
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| IceDigger wrote: | | Whats modprobe and how do you use it? |
Usually when I have a question like "what's X and how do I use it?", the first thing that I do is find a free terminal and type
modprobe is a program that manages dependencies for kernel module loading. You use it by replacing module_name in | Code: | | # modprobe module_name |
with the name of the module that you wish to load.
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gtroland
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| Posted: Thu Jul 18, 2002 2:05 pm Post subject: Try this |
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On my all SCSI System (Adaptec 29160N, IBM 18.35GB 36LZX disc drive, HP9200 CD-RW) I had to go into the Adaptec BIOS, <ctrl-A> at boot, and change the boot device from 0 (happens to be my harddrive) to 6 (happens to be my CD-RW) to get the system to boot from the HP9200. Of course, when rebooting after install I had to change my Adaptec BIOS boot device back to 0 to boot from the harddrive. Changing boot sequence in the motherboard BIOS had absolutely no effect on this one way or the other.
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