Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1683 mails)

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From: Egan <egan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:38:12 -0500
Message-ID: <o6ql1t0q5l13tf17lce85c9sl2o0qm4aic@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: SV: [SLE] 6.4 MCA boot disk



On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 21:58:46 +0100, "Mikke Mattsson"
<sprouts@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> Without MCA support compiled into the kernel, you cannot boot an MCA
>> machine.
>
>I have one of those old MCA computers, almost as large as my desk, in my
>office.  I would like to be able to install Linux on it, just to be
>able to show my co-workers that ancient technology can run 21century
>software.

There is an MCA boot disk for Suse 6.2 which I installed on my Server
95.  It took some research to get the right LILO parameters:

   ibmmcascsi=ansi,0x3550,7 mca-pentium ide0=noprobe ide1=noprobe

The first parameter is only if you have SCSI.  I had to change the
scsi base address to 0x3550 and force that address via the LILO prompt
because it would not work at the default address for some reason.

The mca-pentium is mandatory, and I had to prevent ide probing too,
before it would work.

You have to suppply these parameters to LILO when using the MCA boot
disk to install.