okay, I've got this adaptec 2940UW card which was a major pain in my a$$ when I installed RedHat 4 on my system a while back. I've just installed debian, and on startup (from the rescue disk), couldn't load the kernal without the lilo flag "aic7xxx=extended,no_reset".
The funny thing is, half way though the install, I decided I wanted a different disk partition setup, and I could not change the primary boot sector from reading Linux EXT, even though the type flag was 83. So I restarted the install, and it wouldn't boot up passed the aic7xxx error: not the SIG error, instead my scsi hard drive (I only have a single scsi hard drive), which resides on id:lun 0:0 resets the whole chain repeatedly. After about 3 tries (thinking maybe i mispelled, or maybe I didn't have extended, or whathaveyou), it worked again, and it installed the base system. I was at the reboot part, so I did that, and guess what? three tries loading lilo with "aic7xxx=extended,no_reset" before it would work. anyone know what's going on? -- quiet rob ----------- "Just keep telling yourself you are immortal" --Albert Hofmann
