From owner-aic7xxx Tue Sep 1 18:24:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA06695 for aic7xxx-outgoing; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:24:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (kawoserv.kawo2.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.146.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA06672 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 18:24:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de) Received: from kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (alex.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.251.26]) by kawoserv.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.0/8.6.9) with ESMTP id DAA05957 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 03:23:31 +0200 Message-ID: <35EC9E17.C3C269CC@kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 01:23:35 +0000 From: Alex Farber X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: aic7xxx Mailing List Subject: success with ASUS P2B-S (AIC7890) and hints Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-aic7xxx@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I'd like to thank you all for the patience and hints and Doug for the developing patch - I have finally installed Red Hat 5.1 Linux on my UW SCSI drive connected to P2B-S mainboard. Some people asked me to tell them, if I am successful, so here's a small summary (I am new to Linux, so consider it solely as hints): 1) The patch is located at ftp://ftp.dialnet.net/pub/linux/aic7xxx/ 2) You apply it by copying it to /usr/src/linux/ 3) Then: patch -p1 -E < aic7xxx-5.1.0-pre8-2.0.35.patch 4) Then compile kernel (make mrproper; make xconfig; and so on) 5) Then you add it to other images and run lilo. It worked for me and I was able to mount the SCSI-disk from my older IDE-drive. Now you can make your own install diskette for Red Hat. There are some hints in the attached file and at http://www.users.fast.net/~rodsmith/rhjol-technical.html and ftp://halef.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/pub/images/README Unfortunately it didn't work for me. I think I selected some wrong kernel compiler options. Anyway, I am too sick of compiling kernels, to do it now - I took an install image by Felix (thanks!) from ftp://halef.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/pub/images/ and it worked for me :-) There are also some other install disk images at ftp://calculix.mathematik.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/juergen/aic7xxx/ and http://www.cs.utsa.edu/research/AI/bylander/linux/dell-precision.html Maybe they will work for you (depends on which modules you need). Finally after the installation, I had the problem to make lilo use the MBR of the /dev/sda, it kept telling "not the first disk", even though it was (entered in BIOS) The solution is to use the lines disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 in the lilo.conf file (see the attachment). Greetings Alex -- http://www.simplex.ru/pref.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-aic7xxx" in the body of the message