I was trying to install the 1.1-Beta of Debian Linux and my system hung during the intial boot. I was using the Jun 3 version of boot1440.bin.
My system is a 100 MHz Pentium PCI box with 32 MB RAM. It has an Award Bios. I have a Buslogic BT-956C PCI Wide SCSI Host Adapter with a Fujitzu 2 GB hard disk (it has 2075 cylinders). Boot finds my Buslogic controller and says it is initialized succesfully. It detects the Fujitzu drive. The last line is: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 It then hangs with the drive light on. I also have a scsi cd-rom and tape drive installed. I was surprised that it claims: scsi0: Target 0: Synchronous at 10.0 mega-transfers/second I thought the 956C was a wide FAST scsi controller that ran at 20 megabits per second. Is that the problem? Or is it the fact that DOS (I have a msdos partition on /dev/sda1) thinks it has only 1024 cylinders? I know the machine is okay because I had been using it to run a Slackware version of Linux with kernel 1.2.13. Also the Slackware 3.0.3 boot disk recognizes the drive proberly and will allow me to boot. I quit after fdisk'ing the drive because I decided I wanted a more upgradable system. Using the old slackware install I never could get LILO to work but Loadlin was fine. Please don't tell me I must use Slackware or Red Hat. Larry Loos Show-Me Net e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1417 N Henderson http://www.showme.net/ Cape Girardeau, MO 63701 314/334-9322
