Greetings,
I am hoping that perhaps one of you fine folks can help me with a small
problem I am having in attempting to install Redhat 5. I have read
through the list archives and see that this tends to be a thorn in the
side of the Redhat staff (hence the fact it is unsupported).
Here is the lowdown:
I have been trying persistently (and unsuccessfully) to install Redhat
on a machine for the past week. The machine in question is:
386 SX 40
Longshine (NE2000) netwrok card (300,10)
AHA1520B SCSI controller (1.15 BIOS) (340,12,7 ROM C800)
Quantum 1080 SCSI HDD
Matsushista 8X SCSI CDROM
I booted off the Redhat bootdisk I made from the original CD and
attempted to install the code. The installer upon probing my SCSI bus
informed me it could not find a supported SCSI controller using
autoprobe. I used the specify options to manually declare the card
location and the SCSI card was found.
I am able to install all of the code. I switched to a virtual terminal
and manually installed LILO with the append= statement and wrote lilo.
I reboot after the install and receive the following message:
scsi : 0 hosts
scsi : detected total.
Partition check:
loading module aha152x.o
error in /lib/aha152x: parameter not found
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:01
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01
I have read the Install HOWTO and the SCSI HOWTO to no avail. I spoke
to another gentleman that had the exact same problem and the response he
got from Redhat was try the development image. I tried booting off the
development image with the same results even after completely blowing
away LILO and my previous install of Redhat. I have attempted to
install the Slackware 3.4 kernel that specifically had the module for
the AHA152x built in with similar results. I even went so far as to
attempt to install backlevel code of Redhat and Slackware (3.03 and 3
respectively) with the generic SCSI kernel.
At this point I almost feel like I am doing something wrong that is
blatantly obvious (but I am overlooking it), or that the whole idea of
support for the 1520 is a myth. Everytime I have attempted to find help
on this I have received "It worked for me".
Is there anyone out there that can shed some light into this? I would
be eternally grateful for any assistance that can be provided.
Best regards,
BJ
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