From owner-aic7xxx Mon Aug 24 18:27:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09542 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:27:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pandora.cantech.net.au (pandora.cantech.net.au [203.26.6.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09524 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 18:27:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tony@cantech.net.au) Received: from poseidon.cantech.net.au (poseidon.cantech.net.au [203.26.6.1]) by pandora.cantech.net.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA31152; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:23:54 +0800 Received: from localhost (tony@localhost) by poseidon.cantech.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id JAA32095; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:28:15 +0800 X-Authentication-Warning: poseidon.cantech.net.au: tony owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 09:28:14 +0800 (WST) From: "Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima" To: Roddy McColl cc: aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aic7890, rh 5.1 install problem In-Reply-To: <9808241955.AA23963@visual-ra.swmed.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Roddy McColl wrote: > > I have an ASUS P2B-S with the following devices (as reported by the > Adaptec BIOS): > 2 IBM DDRS 39130W (ULTRA2-SE) - on the Ultra 2 connector > 1 HP DAT drive C1533A (Fast/ULTRA-SE) on the wide connector > > I have tried to use the rh 5.1 boot disks supplied by Tom Bylander > (bylander@trurl.cs.utsa.edu) (pre6) and by Felix > (felix@halef.rhrz.uni-bonn.de) and I find that I can get about 20-70 > MB into the install from the (ATAPI) cd-rom when the following fatal error > is reported: > > error 2 reading header: No such file or directory > install exited abnormally > sending termination signals ... done > sending kill signals ... done > unmounting file systems ... done > you may safely reboot your system > > Has anyone seen and solved this problem? Any other suggestions? I don't profess to be an expert in this feild, I'm just sharing my experience/ success :) I have to admit that I cheated to make it work. I installed it in several hits. Install an IDE drive on the system Install RH5.1 on the IDE drive. I made this a very basic system I unchecked everything except C devel Development libraries Upgrade to K2.0.35 and source Patch kernel, compile and install. On next boot you should now see the SCSI drive(s) then mount you scsi disks under /mnt /mnt/usr /mnt/var Then I used find . -print0 | cpio -0pduma /mnt (from the root directory) I edited /mnt/etc/fstab to point to the correct filesystems etc etc Once I'd done that I could then reboot. At the LILO prompt I typed linux root=/dev/sda1 Which booted and came up just fine :) then I typed lilo (I needed to add "linear" to /etc/lilo.conf" and from there the machine booted without trouble (no intervetion required) Then I removed the IDE drive and disabled the controller and I haven't looked back. I know this is a very long winded way to install a system BUT it does work. Yours Tony. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message