Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 20:48:16 +0000 From: Alex Farber <alex@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> To: phaseV <rob@captainvideo.nl>, aic7xxx Mailing List <AIC7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: does linux detect ASUS p2b-s ? Message-ID: <35EB0C10.44D74401@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> References: <35EB0E69.5B351C05@captainvideo.nl>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------36AE194B1CC17B1033B3832A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit phaseV wrote: > No, i'm not asking how to, (hints are welcome, though) > i just like to know if it's possible to get my asus p2b-s > mainboard to work with linux. Hi, I think it does. I have an ASUS P2B-S MB too and a Ultra-wide IBM SCSI disk. There's a patch for 2.0.35 kernel by Doug, at: ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ and it works for my current Red Hat Linux installed on an older IDE-disk - I am able to mount and the SCSI disk. And there are some Red Hat install disks at ftp://calculix.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/juergen/aic7xxx/ and http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/AI/bylander/linux/dell-precision.html but they don't work for me. The disk from the 1st address is 1600 KB big and maybe that's why my MB can't boot from it. The disk from the 2nd address is missing the ne.o module for my NE2000 network card. So I have tried to make my own install disks using the instructions attached to this mail to modify the initrd.img. And I think it worked, since the Red Hat installation starts well. But then it stucks when insmoding aic7xxx.o. I think the reason is, that the vmlinuz is not compatible with the modules that I have compiled and put into the initrd.img. So I just overwrite the vmlinuz with my own kernel and it kind of works too - it boots, but does not start the Red Hat install program (why?). It boots my old Linux from the IDE-disk. What helps? I would appreciate any hints, since I am new to Linux, but I think I am close to the solution, just missing some important step... Greetings Alex -- http://www.simplex.ru/pref.html --------------36AE194B1CC17B1033B3832A Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="install.txt" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="install.txt" http://hp-linux.cern.ch/SupportTable.html cd ~ # go to ~root gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c 3c59x.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS` # compile the module # put the RedHat 5.1 boot diskette in the reader mcopy a:initrd.img /tmp # you have to copy the file initrd.img from the diskette gzip -cd /tmp/initrd.img > /tmp/initrd.ext2 # next uncompress it mount -t ext2 /tmp/initrd.ext2 /mnt/floppy -o loop # mount the file as filesystem gzip -cd /mnt/floppy/modules/modules.cgz > /tmp/modules.cpio # uncompress the module file it contains (it is in cpio format) cd /tmp ; mkdir modules ; cd modules ; cat /tmp/modules.cpio | cpio -i # extract the modules cp ~/3c59x.o . # Copy the new module for the 3Com card ls | cpio -o | gzip -c9 > ../newmodules.cgz # recreate the compressed cpio file cp ../newmodules.cgz /mnt/floppy/modules/modules.cgz # replace old modules.cgz by the new version umount /mnt/floppy # unmount the filesystem file gzip -c9 /tmp/initrd.ext2 > /tmp/initrd.img # compress the filesystem file mcopy /tmp/initrd.img a: # copy it back to the diskette --------------36AE194B1CC17B1033B3832A-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message
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