I'm wondering why I've not received any responces. Am I on the right list?
Gary Seven wrote: > I'm having a really tough time installing woody on a tyan tiger mp or > mpx. No matter what what I do the install either: > - detects no hard drives at all > - finds the drives, but hangs during file system initialization > - gets to the point of writing files onto the file system, then hangs > part way thru. > > Oddly enough, I've had this same mother board, drives, drive > controllers, etc running RH7.1; but now, neither RH7.3 or woody will > install on the system (can't find the rh7.1 discs to re-try it). > > Win2K installs and runs just fine. Which sorta indicates that the > hardware is fine. > > I've also tried different drive controllers. The system was originally > running with two cd writers on the MB's primary and secondary ide > channels and the drives on a 3ware ide raid card. However, I suspect > that the file system performance was really poor and I want something > to compare to; so I wanted to remove the ide raid card and test the > file system with the one hard drive and cd writer on the MB's ide. > > For the installs with the pci ide cards I did use bf2.4. > > I've even changed MB's. The orginal MB was a tyan tiger MP purcahsed a > year ago, second was a tiger MPX purchased recently. Am using DDR ECC > memory. > > I've tried installing RH7.3 and woody under the following conditions, > and both fail at one of the previously mentioned points: > - hard drive on MB's primary ide, cd writer on MB's secondary ide > - hard drives on promside pci ide controller (no raid) > - hard drives on 3ware pci ide raid card, configured JBOD > cd writes on MB's primary and secondary ide > > I've searched the mailing list archives high and low looking for > problems that matched mine; but the only thing I've found was a post > saying to use bf2.4 and one pointing to some other files to use: > > Peter, Try this one > http://people.debian.org/~blade/boot-floppies/cvs/boot-bf2.4-with-basedebs.iso > <http://people.debian.org/%7Eblade/boot-floppies/cvs/boot-bf2.4-with-basedebs.iso> > > This works for me on every think I have tried it in. > > Can't figure out what to do with this one: doesn't boot and neither do > any of the images on it. > > Wont work with this crap without additional modules. See > http://www.debian.org/~blade/install/preload/ > <http://www.debian.org/%7Eblade/install/preload/>. > > This didn't help either; but it doesn't seem like I should need it if > the hard drive is just on the MB's ide. > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
