Hello,
I have a system with an Adaptec 19160 card in it. I put the Fsys.aha8scsi
driver on the boot disk. If I boot off of the boot floppy, I can manually
load the drivers with the following:
Fsys.aha8scsi aha8scsi -V 9005 -D 81 &
I got the vendor and device ID’s from the show_pci command.
I put that same command in the /boot/build/hard.1 file as follows:
/bin/Fsys.aha8scsi
$ Fsys.aha8scsi aha8scsi -V 9005 -D 81
After that, I went to the /boot directory and ran:
make b=hard.1
and then copied the images/hard.1 file to /.boot, but I can’t boot the
system. It just hangs on bootup. It gets to the point where it says “press
escape to boot alternate” and I get three periods and then a question mark.
Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Joe
After booting from the floppy and mounting the hard disk, how many
cylinders does fdisk /hd report? (assumes you mount the drive as /hd).
If this number is greater than 1023 there is the possibility /.boot
is out of bounds. If this is a new installation where is safe to lose
the partition, see if you can’t diddle with the SCSI config (^A after
POST) to get the cylinders<1024 or make a small (3MB) boot partition.
If there is valuable data you might try making a large contiguous hole
up front via copying files to a new dir after which you delete the
originals (and /.boot) then try copying images/boot again.
Richard
Joseph Lupo wrote:
Hello,
I have a system with an Adaptec 19160 card in it. I put the Fsys.aha8scsi
driver on the boot disk. If I boot off of the boot floppy, I can manually
load the drivers with the following:
Fsys.aha8scsi aha8scsi -V 9005 -D 81 &
I got the vendor and device ID’s from the show_pci command.
I put that same command in the /boot/build/hard.1 file as follows:
/bin/Fsys.aha8scsi
$ Fsys.aha8scsi aha8scsi -V 9005 -D 81
After that, I went to the /boot directory and ran:
make b=hard.1
and then copied the images/hard.1 file to /.boot, but I can’t boot the
system. It just hangs on bootup. It gets to the point where it says “press
escape to boot alternate” and I get three periods and then a question mark.
Am I missing something?
Thanks,
Joe