From: adrianho@barkley.berkeley.edu (Adrian J Ho) Subject: Re: SLS+COMPAQ -- Unhappy To The Last? Date: 29 Apr 1993 16:34:35
In article <mcb.736055244@mach> mcb@mach.eng.hou.compaq.com (Mike Busby) writes:
>Would you care to elaborate? We have run Linux on various flavors of Compaq
>hardware out-of-the-box, so to speak, without one problem booting up or
>recognizing devices. I'll have to admit though, that SCSI controller you
>mentioned is a new one on me.
All I know about the SCSI controller is that it's based on the
WD33C93A chip (this from looking at the card itself). Anyone written
a driver for this?
And with regards to my problem, Damien Neil and Matt Welsh came up
with 3 suggestions:
(1) Create a swap partition (with 4MB RAM, you'll need it anyways).
(2) run mke2fs without the "-c" option
(3) delete the DOS partition with *DOS* fdisk instead of Linux fdisk.
Did all three, and it seems to work now. Thks much, guys!
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(Trying To) Work HyperWonders On A 486 And $10 A Day