I am trying to install Debian 2.0 on this older server. It is a dual-pentium 60 with 64 megs of memory and one 2.1 Gig SCSI hard drive. The SCSI controller is an onboard controller and is an Adaptec AIC-7770. The bus is entirely EISA. I've made the boot installation disk from the ezdisk program on the Debian CD, which has always worked fine before. This is what happens when I boot: It begins to load the kernel, goes through a bunch of normal looking stuff, and then does this:
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7770 SCSI host adapter> found at EISA slot 9 (scsi0) Twin Channel, A SCSI ID 7, B SCSI ID 7, 4/255 SCBs (scsi0) BIOS enabled, IO Port 0x9c00, IRQ 11 (scsi0) IO Memory at 0x0, MMAP Memory at 0x0 (scsi0) Resetting channel B (scsi0) Resetting channel A *LONG PAUSE HERE* Then it scolls too fast for me to see.. :( Next thing I can see is the following: (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Waiting List inconsistency; SCB index=0, numscbs=0 (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Waiting List inconsistency; SCB index=0, numscbs=0 (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Waiting List inconsistency; SCB index=0, numscbs=0 (scsi0:0:-1:-1) Yikes!! There is a loop in the waiting for selection list! general protection: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<001beac9>] EFLAGS: 00010002 eax: f000e2c6 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0024b600 edx: 00009cbb esi: 0038806c edi: 0009a810 ebp: 00000000 esp: 00387be0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=00387000) Stack: 00000000 0038806c 00000028 00000000 000ba760 00000000 00000000 00000046 001927c5 00000b77 00192900 00000070 0000000a 00000000 000000ff 00000000 00000000 00192b00 00000007 00000001 00000001 00000000 001bf2ff 001bf59d Call Trace: [<001927c5>] [<00192900>] [<00192b00>] [<001bf2ff>] [<001bf59d>] [<001c3cb8>] [<00113501>] [<001c3e3f>] [<00118fc3>] [<0010caf4>] [<0010c49b>] [<002034a5>] [<00204163>] [<0020418e>] [<0020450a>] [<001f8030>] [<001a65b8>] [<00175121>] [<00130308>] [<0010a95d>] [<00120da4>] [<00109542>] [<0010925a>] [<00109261>] [<001094b4>] Code: 0f b6 50 08 0f b6 40 0a c1 e0 03 09 c2 8a 44 32 4c fe c0 88 Aiee, killing interrupt handler At this point, it freezes, and I must reboot, only to repeat the process again. I am no programmer, and all of this is well over my head. There is a possibility that there may be something screwy with the SCSI stuff if only because this is the first I've ever dealt with SCSI. However, I have had someone else who knows about SCSI stuff check the configuration, and they said it was done properly. What does this error/crash/whatever mean? Is it fixable? ----------------------------------------------------- Amanda Shuler | I don't want to start any [EMAIL PROTECTED] | blasphemous rumours, but... -----------------------------------------------------