I ran into the same problem today. My beast is a Compaq Deskpro 6000 with Adaptec SCSI card (2940U) and an IDE-CDROM.
Peter S Galbraith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: : : > > The problem I'm aware of with the Compaq Deskpro 6000 was a a : > > model sold two years ago with an Adaptec SCSI card (2940U). The : > > PC would reboot. : > > : > > Do you have such a controller? I thought this was solved in : > > recent Debian boot disks. : > : > That would be the beast I am working with. I am booting directly from the : > slink CDROM. : : Ah. Try building a boot rescue disk using the images at: : : http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/slink/5.1.15/ We tried this boot disk as well. But the maschine rebooted after probing the IDE controller. Has anyone a futher idee how we can get this machine running? Thanx /alex : [..deleted ..] -- Pilger Alex| "ALL over IP; IP over ALL"