From: hitt@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Daniel Hitt) Subject: newbie installation problem, linux does not see scsi drive Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1993 22:43:19 GMT
I'm trying to install SLS Linux on my 386 machine, but it doesn't
see that i have any hard disks.
As far as i can tell, this problem is not mentioned in the FAQ.
The setup:
CPU: AMD 386
RAM: 4 M
BIOS: American Megatrends
SCSI card: DTC 3280AS (from Data Technology Corporation)
SCSI drive: a 3.5" Maxtor 120 M
1.44 and 1.2 Floppy drives
IDE: none
Linux Version: [as i understand it:] 0.99.p19-6, SLS
The BIOS is marked showing no C drive (or D drive) as per the instructions
with the DTC 3280AS, and the card works (at least for DOS); the drive
also works (for DOS).
When i try to boot off the SLS a1 disk (which i made using rawrite), i
get this output (of which i've copied as much as i can while it
scrolled by):
LILO Loading ramdisk...
. . .
scsi: 0 hosts
. . .
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.2M
Loopback device init
8390.c: v0.86 4/8/93 for 0.99.6 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)
WD80x3 ethercard probe at 0x280: 00 00 c0 67 78 67
WD80?3: Bus width conflict, 8 (probe) != 16 (reg report).
eth0: WD8003 using IRQ 3 with shared memory at 0xd0000-0xd1ffff
wd.c: v0.86 4/8/93 for 0.99.6 Donald Becker (becker@super.org)
Ram disk: 1228800 bytes, starting at 0x1b1d00
Loading 12228800 bytes into ram disk
1744k/4096k available (472k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1496k data)
. . .
done
VFS: mounted root (minix filesystem)
Linux version 0.99.p19-6 (root@softland) 07/01/93 09:51:39
Aug 5 13:04:09 init[1]: version 2.4 booting
/proc on /proc type proc (defaults)
Aug 5 13:04:10 init[1]: Entering runlevel:4
Welcome . . .
softland login: <<<HERE I TYPE>>>install
Following is your current partition setup:
Sorry, Linux can not find any hard disks
And that's the end of it.
(I can log in as root and do some simple things, but i'm not
at all sure how i can modify /bin/doinstall, as apparently
there's no room on the a1 floppy for ``more'' to even read
it . . . and i'm not experienced with what mounting and unmounting must
be done to get programs off of floppies to try to get the
SCSI disk recognized.)
Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
dan