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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!destroyer!ais.org!sno
- From: sno@ais.org (Stephen Opal)
- Subject: More SCSI mounting help needed.
- Message-ID: <C01uDI.JIr@ais.org>
- Organization: UMCC
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 01:48:51 GMT
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- I wish to thank the linux community for the assistance offered! I have
- discovered my problem, and it has to do with the a1 boot disk in the
- SLS distribution. For some reason, that particular kernal construction
- is having difficulty noticing my SCSI device.
-
- I was fortunate to have another linux user (plph@engin.umich.edu) local to
- me to offer me an alternative kernal to experiment with. This kernal has
- acknowledged my SCSI device with no difficulty except that he has a bug in
- his finish for installing the rootdisk. However, the kernal configuration
- he uses is with Enabled SCSI support for both 1540 and 1740 Adaptechs,
- and turned off tape and cd support.
-
- Therefor, it appears that I either need a new SLS a1 disk available to me
- or I completely new strategy. Since SLS a1 builds a root in ram and
- then links /user into that, I'm not sure how I can build a new a1 disk
- myself. I have yet to have any success actually reading a disk from the
- a: drive when I remove that a1 disk from it. It won't mount because linux
- thinks it is already mounted, however, there is no directory linked to
- the device, and no entry in df or /etc/mtab for /dev/df0.....
-
- I am willing to do just about anything to get past this SCSI acknowledgement
- problem, including rebuilding from a raw kernel (if I can get away with it).
-
- --
- Stephen N. Opal sno@umcc.ais.org
-