On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Russell King wrote:
>Chris Nelson said:
>> Richard Barber wrote:
>> > I ran the installer, it was able to recognize the SCSI card, the Network
>> > card and the PPA Zip drive (all on autoprobe) and I was able to specify
>> > /dev/sda4 as root partition and /dev/sda5 as swap. Installing from the
>> > Zip disk (/dev/sdb?, something) it seemed to successfully install....
>>
>> Basically, I had exactly the same problem trying to install Linux on my
>> RPC600 + StrongARM + Powertek SCSI II + SyJet 1.5GB. From my experiences,
>> I had to deduce that there is no SCSI support in the install Kernel, and it
>> has to be loaded as a module during boot up. Unfortunately, if your system
>> is all on a SCSI drive, it can't get to the module (or the Kernel if you
>> attempt a normal boot).
Hmm...yes...I've put a 50MB root partition on my ADFS drive now (after a
couple of visits to HForm) but still no cigar (although it does at
least now get me to a root prompt)...
>There is a solution, and it's sitting on a CD Image on my machine. It's
>a fully populated RedHat CD ROM for ARM Linux.
Is the CD image a solution to Chris's problem (SCSI not working on a
recompiled kernel) or mine (SCSI II module not in the original install
kernel)?, or both ?!
Rich
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