> Michael Cassera wrote: > > I thought I'd give Linux a shot on my Amiga 2000. I followed the howto at > > http://www.linux-m68.org/debian-amiga.html to partition my drive. > > > > I have a two drives on the GVP-M/tekmagic 060/scsi card(tekscsi2.device). A > > 1G at scsi-0 and a 2G at scsi-2. The 1G is my primary Amiga system drive > > that I left alone. I created 3 partitions on the 2G drive. One Amiga > > native and 2 "custom" file systems. The two future Linux partitions were > > set at 1G and 128M for Root and Swap. I labelled them sdb1 and sdb2 > > respectively. Set the identifiers as per the howto as well as any other > > settings and rebooted. > > > > Once I rebooted, I ran the amiboot-5.6 program without incident and got the > > install menu. Unfortunately, no drives were detected and I got stuck. I > > tried renaming the drives to sda1 & 2 without success. > > The name of the volume is irrelevant, it's the partition identifier that > matters. What version of Debian are you trying to install? Did the > kernel even detect your SCSI card? If the SCSI card is not recognised, > then naturally it won't know about your hard disks (or your controller). > When the installer starts, press Alt-F2. You will get a shell prompt, > press enter to activate it, and type "dmesg |more", this is the output > messages from the kernel, read carefully through it, does it say it > found a SCSI host? Does it say that there are two SCSI drives? It should > detect all SCSI hosts. > > It is possible that your SCSI controller is not supported. > > Regards, > > Ross.. I'm trying to install Debian v3.0.23. I checked out 'dmesg' and is says 'scsi hosts : 0'. I'm guessing that it just can't see it.
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