On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 01:39:01PM -0400, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Raoul Gaasch wrote: > > > Does booting debian from SRM only works with a certain SCSI controllers? > > Depends on which controller and the SRM support of same for the > motherboard you have. I have an SX and I recently switched to SRM from > AlphaBIOS. I use a Tekram 390F (Symbios 53c875) and have had no problems > booting from either of my hard drives.
Depends not only on the manufacturer (BusLogic is NOT supported), but also the specific chipset - NCR/Symbios 810/875/895 are fine, 860 was not. SRM supports, in general, only the options which we (DEC/COMPAQ) have sold to run under OSF1/DU/Tru64 or VMS. That some cards that we've not sold will work, ie some of the SCSI NCR810/875/895 or QLogic or (recently) Adaptec ones, or some of the third party TULIP NICs, is luck... ;-} But you're out of luck with BusLogic under SRM if you boot from it; if you can boot another way (from a supported SCSI or IDE disk or over the net) then you can stick with SRM, otherwise go back to AlphaBIOS and MILO... Good luck. --Jay++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jay A Estabrook Alpha Engineering - LINUX Project Compaq Computer Corp. - MRO1-2/K20 (508) 467-2080 200 Forest Street, Marlboro MA 01752 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
