On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, W. Blaine Dowler wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> I just installed Gentoo Linux for the first time yesterday, working from a 
> stage 1 installation.  
> Everything seems fine, until it's time to reboot.  (Well, the "slang" package 
> isn't where the 
> system expects it to be, but Google, grep, and nano pointed me to what needed 
> changed and 
> how to change it.)
>  
> When I'm booting my system, it seems to choke on my SCSI card.  It keeps doing 
> a "Dump 
> Card State" thing that's mostly zeroes, but includes some comments like 
> "Yikes!  There is a 
> loop in the find list!" in there that keep flashing by.  This behavious 
> happens whether I've got 
> the "doscsi" flag passed to the kernel or not.  Neither SCSI device (external 
> Zip drive or 
> CD-R/RW) is essential to booting the system.  Does anyone know of a way to 
> bypass the 
> stage of the bootup causing this, or just fix it outright without access to a 
> command prompt?
>  
> Blaine
> 
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What type of SCSI card are you using ?

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