On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 08:51:38PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > >> Eg no installation has worked on a SCSI only machine since Redhat-9. > > Since I install on SCSI-only machines all the time, this is clearly not > > true. > Did you really misunderstand me? > Let me remove any ambiguity: > no Fedora installation has ever worked on _my_ SCSI only machine. > The fact that they work on your SCSI only machine is interesting, > but irrelevant. Since I install on many different SCSI-only machines and it works, it might not be completely irrelevant. My guess is that on yours, it's simply not auto-loading the right drivers properly and that if you select them manually, it may work. > I give some details of my machine below. That tells about the system BIOS. If the problem is really SCSI related, it'd help to know the SCSI controller. > I have tried all the "official" Fedora kernels, > and all of them have led to panics. In the installer, or at some other point? > I always compile a kernel with built-in SCSI > (rather than as a module). > > If anyone can tell me a magic formula to boot with a Fedora kernel > I shall be very grateful. We should be able to make it work *without* magic. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> Current office temperature: 78 degrees Fahrenheit.
