Hello, I try to install slink (debian 2.1), booting from the cd-rom 1, and I have no problem until the system tries to detect the scsi devices.
My PC is an Pentium 200MHz (non MMX) with 128MB I have a SCSI controller which is an AHA-2940A a PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TS Rev: 1.00 (SCSI) a QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL SE8.4S Rev: PJ09 (SCSI) a QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL SE4.3S Rev: PJ09 (SCSI) and a Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CDROM drive The video card is an ExpertColor DSV 3968P. Here you have the message I get when I boot from the CDROM ... md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 17/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct. (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination (scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted (scsi0) during machine bootup. (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO) (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded ----- After the 'Download sequencer code...' message the boot is completely stuck. I have also tried the boot parameters like boot: linux aic7xxx=extended,no_reset or without the no_reset but no improve. With the no_reset I am just stuck after the warning message telling to use it only if you know what you are doing ... Now I have tried to boot from a TOMSRBT disk and the messages are the following : (As you will see no problem ...) Memory: sized by int13 0e801h Console: 16 point font, 480 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x30, 1 virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000fdb60 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfdb70 pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb91 Probing PCI hardware. Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 80.08 BogoMIPS Memory: 127684k/131072k available (816k kernel code, 384k reserved, 2188k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok. Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done Linux version 2.0.37 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #13 Fri Oct 15 19:41:45 EDT 1999 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Serial driver version 4.13p1 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size loop: registered device at major 7 hdc: Hewlett-Packard CD-Writer Plus 8100, ATAPI CDROM drive ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is an 8272A scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256). 3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html Partition check: VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:3c RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 518 VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem). scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : 0 hosts. (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 17/0 (scsi0) Narrow Channel, SCSI ID=7, 3/255 SCBs (scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination (scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct. (scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination (scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted (scsi0) during machine bootup. (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Ext-50 NO) (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.13/3.2.4 <Adaptec AHA-2940A Ultra SCSI host adapter> scsi : 1 host. Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-40TS Rev: 1.00 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL SE8.4S Rev: PJ09 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 Vendor: QUANTUM Model: FIREBALL SE4.3S Rev: PJ09 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 (scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 16777215 [8191 MB] [8.2 GB] sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 > (scsi0:0:5:0) Synchronous at 20.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15. SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8418816 [4110 MB] [4.1 GB] sdb: sdb1 < sdb5 sdb6 sdb7 sdb8 > EATA0: address 0x7c10 in use, skipping probe. EATA0: address 0x7c88 in use, skipping probe. EATA0: address 0x170 in use, skipping probe. scsi : 1 host. scsi : 1 host. scsi : 1 host. ppa: Version 1.42 ppa: Probing port 03bc ppa: Probing port 0378 ppa: SPP port present ppa: PS/2 bidirectional port present ppa: EPP 1.9 with hardware direction protocol ppa: Probing port 0278 ppa: SPP port present ppa: EPP 1.9 with hardware direction protocol scsi : 1 host. scsi : 1 host. scsi : 1 host. VFS: Disk change detected on device 02:00 Any idea ? As I haven't receive the confirmation of my subscription yet, could you also reply to my mail address [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thx for your help, Francis Pirotton