From: Drew Eckhardt (drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu)
Date: 08/31/92


From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Boot 0.97 w/o SCSI?
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 06:56:37 GMT

In article <BttzGA.GEo@acsu.buffalo.edu> visnurpk@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Rich Kernin) writes:
>Hi,
>
> Just recently gotten back into Linux (am running 0.95c+ currently) and
>wanted to upgrade to the most recent version. Downloaded the boot image
>for 0.97 from tsx-11, but when it boots it "hangs" on the SCSI part. My
>machine has 2 IDE drives and one SCSI tape drive. It senses the tape drive,
>as a host, and then seems to hang. Read in the FAQ that this might happen,
>but I have never come out of it. Does anyone have a boot image w/o the
>SCSI code compiled into it? Tryed compiling the new code, but gave up after

Which SCSI board do you have?

>to many configuration errors (make depend + .s.S not working with pmake).

Pmake is not 100% backwards compatable with good old make. Use
GNU make instaed, and your problems will go away.

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