Some more data. This is what is printed to the console: [...] scsi: <fdomain> Detection failed (no card) NCR53c406a: no available ports found sym53c416.c: Version 1.0.0 Failed initialization of WD-7000 SCSI card! IBM MCA SCSI: No microchannel-bus support present -> Aborting. megaraid: v107 (December 22, 1999) aec671x_detect: 3w-xxxx: tw_findcards(): No cards found. scsi : 0 hosts. scsi : detected total. [...]
Cheers, Andrew On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 11:03:10PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > When I boot from CD (2.2r0) to install I am told (after configuring > the keyboard) that no hard drives are present. This is not true - the > machine has two SCSI disks hanging off a Symbios controller (sym53c8xx > - 53c1010 ultra3). > > The machine came with Red Hat pre-installed (and it boots/works!), so > this hardware is supported by Gnu/Linux (and presumably BIOS is OK). > So how do I install Debian? I can still boot to Red Hat and have > cable modem cnxn and CD writer, so could burn more up-to-date CDs if > necessary (for example). My plan was to put Debian on the other disk > and then delete Red Hat once it was working. > > Looking in various FAQs, nothing mentions Symbios, but another make > with suspiciously smilar numbers (can't find the reference now) was > supported with no boot paramateres, if that makes any difference... > > Any suggestions/help appreciated. Thanks, > Andrew > > -- > http://www.acooke.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- http://www.acooke.org
