On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 09:36:49AM +0100, Bob wrote: > Bob McGowan wrote: > >Bob, > > > >I've been working with a couple of SCSI based systems recently, with the > >testing release (etch). Possible issues could be: are your SCSI disks > >on one host bus adapter; do you have any USB (or other interfaces) that > >set up SCSI emulation mode, and if so, do you have any devices actually > >attached; which boot loader are you using? > > All three disks are on one SCSI controller, I think the CD and tape drive > are on the other controller. There's no USB devices attached and I'm using > GRUB. > > >If you have two HBA's, you might consider turning off the BIOS on the > >one without the boot disk. This might be all you need to do. > > What's an HBA...? > > I've just had another look and there might be some sort of error message > getting put out onto the console, but it's scrolling too fast for me to > read it. Is there a way to view what's already been output on the > console...? > > The very top line reads: > > /bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off > > If I then hit return, I get dumped into some sort of shell, but there > doesn't seem to be many commands available. I'm totally at a loss about > what to do, maybe the netinstall was buggered and I need to install off > a DVD or something...?
you're being dropped into busybox, which is a limited shell, but you CAN do some things. can you mount any of your disks from there? if so, turn on boot logging: add or change /etc/default/bootlogd to say BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes. Then you can read /var/log/boot after your next boot and most of the messages will be there. Also, ctrl-s supposedly will pause/un-pause the scrolling of boot messages, though I've not done it. hopefully that will get you some more info. A
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