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On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 06:31, roncordell@attbi.com wrote:
Hi all,
I seem to have a problem with installing SuSE (or any Linux, for that matter) on a system with multiple SCSI adapters. I think the problem is how the system is configured, not with SuSE or Linux itself, so I was hoping someone could tell me what I might be doing wrong.
M/B - Abit BE6-II 800Mhz P3 768MB Ram, onboard HPT366 IDE (disabled) SCSI Adapter #1 (in PCI slot #2) - Adaptec 2940UW, SCSI ID = 2 - CD R/W Drive, SCSI ID = 1 - DVD Drive, SCSI ID = 5 - Hard Drive #1, SCSI ID = 6 SCSI Adapter #2 (in PCI slot #4) - Adaptec 2940U2W, SCSI ID = 7 - Hard Drive #2, SCSI ID = 0 - Hard Drive #3, SCSI ID = 4
When I place the SuSE 8.2 DVD installation disk, I get the message on the boot screen (BIOS) that a bootable disk is in the DVD drive. The IsoLinux image boots (pretty SuSE 8.2 installation Welcome screen), and I see the progress bar load the image from the DVD. Then the screen goes black, with just a blinking cursor, and hangs there. I don't see any other information that helps me see what's going wrong.
I have tried everything I can think of in BIOS settings, SCSI BIOS settings, etc. to make this work, but nothing seems to help. Everything has the latest BIOS updates. I've looked on the SuSE support db, and I don't see anything that resembles this problem. I've googled around and haven't found anything, and the folks on my local linux ug list don't seem to know anything.
Does anyone out there have some insight that might be able to help me?
Thanks,
-ronc
Most of the possible suggestions that I was going to mentioned were covered quite well by rex@nosyntax.net in his responses to your query. I have two desktops set up with 2 scsi cards each and they work awesome with SuSE of all variants including 8.2 Your boot hard disk probably should be id "0" and you definitely have to ensure that the scsi card recognizes the hard disk as "bootable". Having the boot hard drive on the same scsi card as the cd and dvd will cause the install to be slow, as the dvd and hard drive will be in use at the same time and the scsi card will operate at the speed of the slower device (20 mb/s). If possible, connecting all the the hard drives (faster devices) to the 2940u2w and leaving the peripherals (slower devices) on the 2940uw would be a preferable setting. BTW the setup I typically use is to install the slower scsi card with the peripherals in pci slot 1 or 2 (shared irq). The faster scsi card in pci slot 3 or 4 with the hard drives. The boot drive is always set to id "0" from the second scsi card. This setup works without problems. Because you can get the isoLinux image started and then the dvd hangs I suspect that my comments above and the suggestions that others have sent to do not fully address your situation. I did not have any problems with SuSE 8.2 being installed on my Adaptec 29160 cards, but I and others had problems with installing SuSE 8.1 and apparently also the Adaptec 2940 series of cards. The solution was to select a "manual installation" and then select the scsi module to be loaded. Choose the "OLD aic7xxx" rather than the new module. Using the "old" module made the install work for the 29160 and 2940 cards with SuSE 8.1, so give that a try. Of course there is also the common standby with SuSE 8.2 of installing with "ACPI off". ps. Not familiar with the ABIT motherboard that you are using but did you go in to the motherboard BIOS and switch off the IDE controller and set the IDE hard drives to "none" and set the boot device to "SCSI"? HTH -- Ralph Sanford - If your government does not trust you, rsanford@telusplanet.net - should you trust your government? DH/DSS Key - 0x7A1BEA01