Hi Benjamin de Coninck Owe; unless Mutt is confused,on Aug 28, you wrote : > I am trying to install debian 1.3 om my pc: > > ALI motherboard > Phoenix BIOS 4.03 > I486 DX4 - 100MhZ > Adaptec 2840A / 42A > > I am having trouble. Booting the rescuedisk at boot prompt I write: > > boot: linux aic7xxx=no_reset > > loading the kernel the computer writes: > > .... > (aic7xxx): Encoutered spurious interrupt > .... > scsi0: Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-fast SCSI) > scsi: 1 host. > scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices > scsi: Aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, id 0, lun 0, Test Unit > Ready 00 00 00 00 00 > aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 0, TCL 0/0/0 > scsi: Aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, id 0, lun 0, Test Unit > Ready 00 00 00 00 00 > aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb 0, TCL 0/0/0 > SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting > SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. > aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 0/0 > aic7xxx: (abort_reset) scb state 0x1, while idle, LASTPHASE = 0xff, > SCSISIGI = 0x0 > aic7xxx: (reset_device) target/channel -1/A, active_scb 0 > aic7xxx: (match_scb) target/channel -1/A to scb 0/A > aic7xxx: (match_scb) target/channel -1/A to scb 0/A > aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Resetting current channel A > aic7xxx: (done_aborted_scbs) Aborting scb 0, TCL=0/0/0 > scsi0: BRKADRINT error (0x1) > Illegal Host Access > Kernel panic: scsi0: BRKADRINT, error 0x1, seqaddr 0x0 > > In swapper task - not syncing > > I am having no trouble whatsoever booting the currently installes DOS > 5.0 on the harddisk. Everything seems to work perfectly, the SCSI bus is > terminated correctly. > > What should I do? >
You should get (if you can) a 'custom tailored' set of boot floppies (or at least the first floppy that do _not_ have any other SCSI drivers but the one for AIC7xxx card. Adaptec cards seem to be _very_ picky about some probing done for other sorts of cards... HTH DamirN P.S. To Debian leadership: Is there ever going to be a separate boot floppy images officialy released by Debian for this purpose? This is a second post about this problem in last two weeks...Thank you. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .