Trouble Installing Linux on new G4 with Adaptec 2930CU SCSI card
After creating the partitions and copying the suseboot folder to the Linux boot partition, I restarted my machine. Linux starts to boot, but hangs when trying to address the SCSI card. Has anyone with a G4 had luck booting Linux with the Build to order SCSI adapter card in their machine? How can I get past this. Thanks. Ken Botwinick
On Tue, Aug 15, Ken Botwinick wrote:
After creating the partitions and copying the suseboot folder to the Linux boot partition, I restarted my machine. Linux starts to boot, but hangs when trying to address the SCSI card.
Any special messages, any errors? Check the scsi cable first, the scsi termination.
Has anyone with a G4 had luck booting Linux with the Build to order SCSI adapter card in their machine? How can I get past this.
We have some G4/450 machines here and they work just fine. Gruss Olaf -- $ man clone BUGS Main feature not yet implemented...
On 8/16/00 2:39 AM, Olaf Hering wrote:
Any special messages, any errors? Check the scsi cable first, the scsi termination.
Here are the error messages that I get: scsi: 1 host scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, scsi 0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test unit ready 00 00 00 00 00 scsi host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 scsi host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder scsi bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 (scsi 0:0:0:0) Synchronous @ 10 Mbyte/sec, offset 15 Then it just continues to repeat over and over. I just got the Power Domain app that lets you set prefs on the adaptec scsi adapter. When I switched the card from Ultra down to Asynchronous, Linus recognized the orb drive, but still would hang at that point and not go any farther. Hope this helps you. Ken
I was having trouble with the SCSI card, so I just took it out and then the installation continued. But now it gets stuck on: Partition check hda: lost interrupt. Anyone know how to fix this? Thanks.
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