On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:14, Robert Slade wrote: > On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 22:40, James Wilkinson wrote: > > Robert Slade wrote: > > > The beast is a Quad Processor PII with a Compaq Smart -2/P controller > > > and the CD is a Yamaha CRW2100S on the Second port of the Controller. > > > > > > From Gogling, I have found that the problem with RH in older versions > > > did not have support for the SCSI controller built in (NCR53c8xx?). > > > > Hmm. Any chance you can get it to do a network install? You might find > > this a lot easier than getting the installer to recognise the CD. > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > James. > > > > -- > > James Wilkinson | "It was rare to catch His Holiness at the moment of > > Exeter Devon UK | transformation into the Infallible Hulk." > > E-mail address: james | -- Chris Ward, Church Times caption competition. > > @westexe.demon.co.uk | > > Thanks James. I've been 'playing' with this some more. The problem seems > to occur right at the start The boot loader starts and tries to read the > CD. I get a list of messages which say something like iso image found at > 00 and all the steps up to 9A (not sure about this as it goes by rather > fast). It looks like the Kernel at initial boot is seeing it as a series > of tracks (or images) rather than 1. Perhaps the problem lies with the > Kernal being booted initially. > > I can get to the initial screen, and I can enter the mem=1048M (to > correct the mis read of the memory). I have tried the noprobe option too > so I can add the drivers manually but the machine dies with the message > Cannot open root device "NULL>" or unknown - block (8,3). etc. I have > tried putting in root=cd0, but that did not work either - I got the same > message with CD0 instead of the NULL before getting anywhere I can load > drivers etc. > > I don't know if this is relevant, but the machine uses EISA and PCI > architecture. > > I have ruled out the FC3 disks as they installed ok on another machine. > The machine runs Free BSD 5.3 rather slowly as the free BSD Kernal does > not support the multi processor option. > > > Rob I have now tried FC2 and that has the same problem :-(. Rob > >
