On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: > > > Try `mem=256M' instead. > > > Please let me now how the Mylex performs ... > > No luck: the installation keeps hanging asking about colors. > Try `mem=255M' instead.
Fine, I'll give it a try tomorrow. Even if it starts, anyway, the problem remains: raid disks on DAC960 aren't neither EIDE nor SCSI disks, and /dev/rd* devices are not created in the normal boot floppies; a quick hack I thought of is to change the major numbers of /dev/sda* devices, so that Debian installation will believe it's coping with normal scsi devices; I'm not satisfied with it, however, since normal devices for it should be named something like /dev/rd/c0d0*. No, that's not on a Sun. BTW RedHat 6.0 used that c0d0* convention right, so their boot disks can be worth a glance for `ideas' O:-) Another problem is the Asus mainboard has an Adaptec UW SCSI controller built-in that has been disabled on the BIOS configuration. Sadly, just the SCSI bios has been disabled from that board, and the Linux Adaptec driver hangs when it finds its controller. The only way I found to avoid Debian boot disks try to load Adaptec drivers, is to make a new kernel. No use were the adaptec boot disks from http://www.debian.org/~adric/aic7xxx/, and even RH6 hung when trying to initialize it: RH6 can only be installed in 'expert' mode, on that machine. Not that I'm afraid of expert modes, anyway. Read you soon! Enrico
