Spent a considerable amount of time playing with SuSE for the past 9 days but to no avail. In general, I start the install with CD#2 ( CD # 1 simply goes to the text line about searching for installed hardware and then jumps the the left side of the screen on the next line and just blinks forever ) , then use the modules floppy which runs linuxrc up to the point of the kernel modules window and then from there says "error reading disk" no matter what I select. Can't even back out from this point and have to shut down the machine. On occasion the install jumps directly to the "loading data into ramdisk 2210 kB ..." screen which completes then jumps to a blank screen with a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner. At one point, and only once, the install made it to the linuxrc screen portion asking for info about the scsi controller. When I tried at this point to load the appropriate drivers the controller options asked for the parameters for the aic7xxx.c device. I have no idea what to put there so I hit return and got a text screen with a further load process eventually hanging with the following repeated continuously until I rebooted: "aborting command due to timeout: pid4, scsi0, channel 0, id4, lun0, test unit ready 00 00 00 00 00" I got this far only once and can't get there again. During the boot process the system provides this info: scsi: 0 hosts scsi: detected total I'm running a Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W based system but I thought that this card series was / is supported. My current (windows-based) system is running on the first hard drive, an IBM SCSI II 8.754 Gig, and my second drive ( for Linux) is an IBM SCSI III 17.5 Gig partitioned as 259 meg swap, 118 meg root, and the remainder for now just an extended partition. I'm out of ideas at this point. Even if this install had run, it was listed as a 2.2.18 kernel install which is not the version I want. I want to install the 2.4 kernel. Thoughts anyone? dave
Try this boot the machine with the boot disk choose language etc.. yast2 comes up choose abort youll get a text mesage to the effect "looking for braile devices..." this will kick you into text mode yast (the most stable IMO) this should be the most stable easiest route to take rob "David C. Johanson" wrote:
Spent a considerable amount of time playing with SuSE for the past 9 days but to no avail. In general, I start the install with CD#2 ( CD # 1
simply goes to the text line about searching for installed hardware and then jumps the the left side of the screen on the next line and just blinks forever ) , then use the modules floppy which runs linuxrc up to the point of the kernel modules window and then from there says "error reading disk" no matter what I select. Can't even back out from this point and have to shut down the machine.
On occasion the install jumps directly to the "loading data into ramdisk 2210 kB ..." screen which completes then jumps to a blank screen
with a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner.
At one point, and only once, the install made it to the linuxrc screen portion asking for info about the scsi controller. When I tried at this point to load the appropriate drivers the controller options asked for the parameters for the aic7xxx.c device. I have no idea what to put there so I hit return and got a text screen with a further load process eventually hanging with the following repeated continuously until I rebooted: "aborting command due to timeout: pid4, scsi0, channel 0, id4, lun0, test unit ready 00 00 00 00 00"
I got this far only once and can't get there again.
During the boot process the system provides this info: scsi: 0 hosts scsi: detected total
I'm running a Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W based system but I thought that this card series was / is supported. My current (windows-based) system is running on the first hard drive, an IBM SCSI II 8.754 Gig, and my second
drive ( for Linux) is an IBM SCSI III 17.5 Gig partitioned as 259 meg swap, 118 meg root, and the remainder for now just an extended partition.
I'm out of ideas at this point. Even if this install had run, it was listed as a 2.2.18 kernel install which is not the version I want. I want to install the 2.4 kernel.
Thoughts anyone?
dave
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On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, David C. Johanson wrote:
Spent a considerable amount of time playing with SuSE for the past 9 days but to no avail. In general, I start the install with CD#2 ( CD # 1
simply goes to the text line about searching for installed hardware and then jumps the the left side of the screen on the next line and just blinks forever ) , then use the modules floppy which runs linuxrc up to the point of the kernel modules window and then from there says "error reading disk" no matter what I select. Can't even back out from this point and have to shut down the machine. Sounds like it might actually be a bad floppy. Try creating another one. On CD#1, in the 'disks' directory, you'll find instructions, rawrite.exe, and the image files.
On occasion the install jumps directly to the "loading data into ramdisk 2210 kB ..." screen which completes then jumps to a blank screen
with a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner.
At one point, and only once, the install made it to the linuxrc screen portion asking for info about the scsi controller. When I tried at this point to load the appropriate drivers the controller options asked for the parameters for the aic7xxx.c device. I have no idea what to put there so I hit return and got a text screen with a further load process eventually hanging with the following repeated continuously until I rebooted: "aborting command due to timeout: pid4, scsi0, channel 0, id4, lun0, test unit ready 00 00 00 00 00"
If you already have a bootable Win9x partition, boot that, right-click on the 'my computer' icon, select 'properties', select the 'device manager' tab, hilite the SCSI controller, select 'properties', then click on the 'resources' tab. It'll tell you which IO addresses, interrupts, and DMA channels are assigned to the device. If the device is a PCI device, then /proc/pci within Linux will tell you some about the resources it's using, as well.
I got this far only once and can't get there again.
During the boot process the system provides this info: scsi: 0 hosts scsi: detected total
I'm running a Adaptec AHA-2940U2/W based system but I thought that this card series was / is supported. My current (windows-based) system is running on the first hard drive, an IBM SCSI II 8.754 Gig, and my second
drive ( for Linux) is an IBM SCSI III 17.5 Gig partitioned as 259 meg swap, 118 meg root, and the remainder for now just an extended partition.
I'm out of ideas at this point. Even if this install had run, it was listed as a 2.2.18 kernel install which is not the version I want. I want to install the 2.4 kernel.
Yast allowed me to install either, or both, 2.2.18 and 2.4.0 kernels. -- Rick Green "I have the heart of a little child, and the brain of a genius. ... and I keep them in a jar under my bed"
Hi! On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, David C. Johanson wrote:
Spent a considerable amount of time playing with SuSE for the past 9 days but to no avail. In general, I start the install with CD#2 ( CD # 1 simply goes to the text line about searching for installed hardware and then jumps the the left side of the screen on the next line and just blinks forever )
Try entering "manual" on the "boot:" prompt (when booting from either CD1 or CD2) - this skips most of the hardware detection (which might be the problem) and directly loads YaST1. Regards, Martin
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