Re: strange installation problems (RHL5.0 on 533/LX)

[Mark Conway Wirt <mark intrepid net>]

Are you using the correct boot disk?  I *think* The RedHat Alpha
distribution doesn't use SCSI modules -- you may need to choose a boot
disk that has the driver compiled in. 

--Mark

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Stefan Krügel wrote:

> Hi everybody,
> 
> I've some strange installation problems on my Alpha.
> 
> System : Dec Alpha 21164 (533MHz), LX164 motherboard, 512MB RAM,
> Adaptec2940UW-SCSI (SCSI-ID 7), 2 Harddisks: IBM DCAS UW-SCSI
> 4,3GB(SCSI-ID 0), IBM DFRS U-SCSI 2,2GB (SCSI-ID 1), Plextor CD12x,
> MatroxMilleniumII. (no network)
> 
> Large disk is completely NTFS formatted (NT as operating system).
> Smaller disk is not partitioned yet. (BTW,NT is running very stable)
> 
> Installation procedure seems to be o.k until the menu-driven part of
> RedHat installation starts. Kernel information before this menu-part
> recognizes all scsi-adapters and disks.
> 
> After setting the keyboard language, there is no menu available to 
> the scsi adapter in terms of loading the appropriate module as described
> in the manual. As a consequence the installation process stops in the
> moment when I'm asked to partition the disks. I got only the error
> message that there are no disks and that I had forgotten to coose the
> scsi adapter settings. Retry or fdisk in another console is not
> possible. There is no possibility to enter the SCSI-module menu.
> 
> It's very strange, may be it is concerned with wrong SCSI-ID. There is
> no information available that RedHat linux needs to have SCSI-Adapter-ID
> 0.
> 
> Thanx a lot
> 
> Szefan
> 
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