Am Samstag, 7. Januar 2006 16:44 schrieb Frans Pop: > On Saturday 07 January 2006 16:29, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I'm having troubles with the netboot images on an SS20. Basically, > > none of those that I've tried seem to detect at boot time the SCSI hard > > drive that's in the machine (a look at the output of `dmesg' makes me > > think so), although a `probe-scsi' at the OB prompt does show it.
Try the following: Alt+F2 Enter modprobe the module for the controlle (IRRC it's called "esp"). > During the installation hard disks are not necessarily detected at boot > time, but may be detected later during the different hardware detection > phases. > > Some basic questions: > - is the scsi controller on pci or sbus > - if on pci, what is the output from 'lspci' and 'lspci -n' The SS20 has not PCI bus, only SBUS. > - if on sbus, what is the output of prtconf > - what kernel driver module is needed for the scsi controller > - does the scsi disk get recognized if you modprobe that module manually That's probably because the controller is not detected. HS