scsi problems

[Geert Stappers]

At 18:36 +0200 10/14/02, Mark Hedges wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Geert Stappers wrote:
>> >I was able to do an installation on a system with a single
>> >scsi disk--- it loaded ide-scsi and aic7xxx modules.  But then
>> >when it rebooted, it could not access the disk to load these
>> >modules to access the disk... kernel panic trying to load vfs.
>> >(Is that what happened?  It did get that far....  Bad disk?)
>>
>> kernel during  FAI install
>> is not the same as the one that is installed
>
>Which is which?
The FAI install kernel is on the TFTP server (unpacked)
The one that is gonna installed, is in the debian archive ( in a package )

>
>> >I tried again using a kernel with scsi support built-in,
>> >instead of modules.  This time, although `discover` finds
>> >the disks, setup_harddisks did not, and Debian::Fai replies
>> >that there are no disks, so it selects "DISKLESS".
>>
>> Had the second attempt information about the disk partitions ( was
>> configfile available?)
>
>No, setup_harddisks could not see the disk and did not write a
>config file.

The config file I meant contains information about partitions,
it should exist when setup_harddisks begins.


>
>--mark--
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