On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 08:37:33 -0400 Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Marcel Pol wrote: > > > W2K and OS/2 Warp 4.5 work fine on this machine, but 8.2 PowerPack and > > > 8.2 download editions wouldn't install with this hardware configuration > > > either: > > > > Tyan 1846 Tsunami Intel 440BX chipset motherboard w/ AMI BIOS > > > 768 Mb SDRAM > > > P3-450 CPU > > > hda 80 Gb > > > hdc 30 Gb > > > LSI 53c875 HBA (SYM8751SP) > > > Pioneer DVD on SCSI ID 1 > > > Yamaha CD-RW on SCSI ID 6 > > > > h-<4> sym0:1: ERROR (a0:0) (8-0-0) (8/35/0) @ (mem febbc1b0:febbc1b0) > > > i-<4> sym0: regdump: da 00 00 35 47 08 01 0f 00 08 00 00 80 00 00 0f 02 > > > ff e0 b3 2e 02 ff ff ff > > > j-<4>sym0: PCI STATUS = 0x2000 > > > k-<4> I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 1239700 > > > > I did eventually get 8.2 to install prior to trying 9.0B2, but only > > > after giving up on SYM SCSI support and installing an ATAPI on hdd just > > > to get 8.2 installed. After finishing the 8.2 install, I removed hdd. > > > Never could make KUDZU work, crashing on each boot without detecting and > > > configuring the SYM SCSI support. > > > There are different drivers for the sym cards. You could try a different > > driver if that's possible. But maybe that won't work with a mounted cdrom > > on > > There are only two that are offered during the install. The NCR driver > managed to reverse the HD boot order last time I tried it, but that > doesn't apply on this system with no sd*. The SYM driver it autoselects > appears to be the only appropriate one for these SYM/LSI HBA's. > > > the scsi card.... Maybe booting from floppy, and doing a hd install > > should make that possible. > > So far I've not found a HOWTO on converting downloaded ISO's into > something I can install from without burning them to CD's first. Is that > what you mean by HD install? I haven't tried a floppy boot/CD install. > I've never needed to do that on an i586/i686 before. > > > What was the default driver it uses, and what is the output of "lspcidrake > > -vf". Is there a driver that works better for you? > > Is that something that can be done from a rescue boot? The 8.2 install > was blown away trying to install 9.0B2. You can get the hd.img from the mounted iso's, or get the hd.img from the mirrors. Put the iso on a local filesystem, and the bootimage on the floppy will ask you where the iso is (partition and path). If you used expert at the bootprompt, you get a rootshell at the second console. There you can load and unload the different drivers in the installer with modprobe, insmod and rmmod. So not the rescue boot, that might be an option to see which driver works, but running the expert install should be more usefull. -- Marcel Pol Linux 2.4.19-0mdk, up 5 days, 39 Registered User #163523
