[rhn-users] Re: Installin RH8

Herta Van den Eynde herta.vandeneynde at cc.kuleuven.ac.be
Mon Nov 22 16:06:14 UTC 2004


Jorge,

"noprobe" tells the installation not to probe the hardware
"dd" should tell installation to prompt you for a driver diskette

Have you tried to just boot without options?

Kind regards,

Herta

Jorge wrote:
> Hi. I need to use RH8 due to the Data Base System that we use, wich is
> designed to RH8 only. I've installed it on several machine with no problems.
> This is the first machine with problems that I have found. I use "noprobe
> dd" because drivers instrucctions say it. Otherwise, I've tried  "linux dd",
> "linux dd hda=cdrom" ... All combinations...
> I can't use other distribution.
> But, do you know what is the problem?
> Another test. I have deactived hardware Raid with cames with LSI. But I have
> the same problem.
> 
> 
> "Corné Beerse" <cbeerse at lycos.nl> escribió en el mensaje
> news:41A1FE6A.9020602 at lycos.nl...
> 
>>Jorge wrote:
>>
>>>Hi. I'm installing RH8 on a machine:
>>>- Mother board: Intel S875WP1-E
>>>- SCSI LSI 320-1 Raid.
>>>- ATAPI cdrom
>>>I boot from cdrom and then type "linux noprobe dd". I have linux drivers
> 
> for
> 
>>>LSI SCSI on RH8. Installation begins, but then, it don't find cdrom. It
> 
> asks
> 
>>>me about scsi cdrom, but It doesn't let me to choose ide cdrom.
>>>I try with "linux noprobe dd hda=cdrom" and with "linux dd hda=cdrom"
> 
> but It
> 
>>>doesn't find cdrom. But It boot from cdrom!!!.
>>>What's wrong? How can I do?
>>>
>>
>>Why the 'noprobe dd'? Let the system pick what it has. Your setup
> 
> (ide-cdrom and
> 
>>scsi disks) is frequently found in servers and installs straight from the
> 
> disks.
> 
>>Why RH8? Why not FC3 (just released) or RHEL3?
>>
>>In the end, roumors are RH8 is not the best RH version, RH9 and RH7.3 are
>>regarded better if you cannot use FC or RHEL.
>>
>>
>>
>>CBee




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