I have tried unsuccessfully tried several versions of Debian on machines with Adaptec 2x4x SCSI adapters. I haven't gotten around yet to see how the kernel is actually configured, but on bootup it recognizes the adapter and tries to initialise it ending in a kernel panic situation long before it tries to install the device drivers from the drv disk. I suspect that this is the cause of the problem.
I have tried to fix the situation by building a custom kernel with the AIC7xxx driver compiled in, but I didn't manage to find a configuration wher the kernel fit on the resq floppy and still is functional. Does anybody have some suggestions. I really want to get Debian up on my main machine. Would it be possible to build a boot kernel that uses only floppy and ram-disk before loading the necessary device drivers from the drv disk? Somebody mentioned that the SuSe distribution uses this approach. This certainly would go a long way to solv my problem. Please reply by email: my newsfeed seems to carry this group only spuriously. Hartmann Schaffer -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
