From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <01BE9277.54A64960.AR@aid-computers.de> From: Andreas Reeh To: "'linuxppc-user'" Cc: "'linuxppc-dev'" Subject: LinuxPPC installation horror !!! / NCR53c875 problem ? Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 19:34:41 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, I spent about 12 hours this day trying to install LinuxPPC R4.1 (yes I received the cd today morning after waiting WEEKS for the ordered R5) and I am short b4 jumping out of the windows .... :-((((( Why ? I have a system with a Motorola MTX 604 - 003a motherboard, this is prep, has pci and scsi (with a ncr53c875 chip) and vga. The first problem was that the prep.img on the cd. I made a nice floppy-bootdisk from it with dd and - yeah, it booted ! But it seems that it did not find my scsi controler and devices (first I thought it is only the cd-rom and tried to put the cd in an other machine and tried to install over ftp but then I noticed that the disk could not be found too), there is no message from the kernel mentioning anything with scsi. Ok, no problem I thought, just get a newer installdisk. So I downloaded ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/pub/linuxppc/linuxppc-R4/install/PREP/zImage.prep -installer-2.2.0-990129 and had much problems getting it to boot from somewhere because it was to big for a normal floppy (see other threads on this list from today). But finally I found two ways which allowd me to boot (the one was from a dat tape, the other from a small partition on the disk partitioned in a x86 linux machine) - but both end with the same problem: "ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 12, function 0 ncr53c8xx: 53c875 detected ncr53c875-0: rev=0x04, base=0x1fffe00, io_port=0xffffe00, irq=14 ncr53c875-0: NCR clock is 60056KHz, 60056KHz ncr53c875-0: ID 7, Fast-20, Parity Checking ncr53c875-0: on-chip RAM at 0x1ffe000 ncr53c875-0: restart (scsi reset) ncr53c875-0: Downloading SCSI SCRIPTS. scsi0 : ncr53c8xx - revision 3.1f scsi : 1 host. scsi : aborting command due to tomeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel0, id0, lun 0x00 00 00 00 00 00 ncr5c8xx_abort: pid=0 serial_number=1 serial_number_at_timeout=1" and this was the end ... now only the reset switch works .... Two things I think I should mention: Linux detects a ncr53c875-0 but I can read "LSI Symbios tm 53c875J" on the motherboards chip - is this correct ? The other thing: last week I found a 2.0.33 kernel (just the zimage, no installer) which booted this system and which FOUND the scsi disk and cd-rom ! The same behavior with a installer-image for R5 (I think it is for R5 but I can't renember exactely where I got it), it has a 2.2.1 kernel and finds the disk and cd, but I think because of differents between the R4.1 and R5 cd content it does not install anything (on console 2 (or 3 or 4 ? forgot it) there is something like "no such file" ...) Now - WHAT could I do !? It would be SOOOOOOOOOOO GREAT if I could use linuxppc on this system but at the moment I see no more chance what I could do :-(((( Any tips ? Please help !!! Please !!! (b4 I start getting bad dreams from this) -- Andreas Reeh (technischer Support) AID Computers AG Tel: +49-2234-95310-19 Max-Planck-Strasse 22 Fax: +49-2234-56088 D-50858 Koeln (Marsdorf) Mail: ar@aid-computers.de GERMANY Web: http://www.aid-computers.de/ [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]