Re: Installation Questions
From: Edward S. Baiz Jr. (edbaizjr_at_comcast.net)
Date: 07/26/05
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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:27:00 +0400 (MET DST)
>Whan you ask a question, try to be concise. Many people will be reluctant to
>read a long paragraph and distill the relevant information from it.
>Don't bother to tell what you have read somewhere.
Agreed.
>You start by stating that you have a problem with a ram disk, but when
>I read further I get the impression that you have a problem with a newly
>bought hard disk. Am I correct?
Yes and no. The new hard works great with my machine. It is just for some
reason in the installation process, the ram disk freezes up.
>- Are you speaking of an initrd (initial ram disk) in the boot process?
yes
>- Why do you need the ram disk, how did you create it, what does it do?
No I did not create it. It was on the debian site for download..
>- Can you boot the computer without the ram disk?
Probably after I install Linux, but now I am just trying to install it.
>- What do you mean when you say 'turn on the hard disk'?
My Fault. The hard drive is an external one and is SCSI.
>
>Perhaps you use a wrong or faulty driver for the hard disk.
>I assume that your operating system is on another hard disk that you did
>not mention. Can you boot it when the new hard disk is attached?
Yes I use an IDE drive for my system and I can boot my computer with the new
hard disk attached. The driver for the hard disk is fine as I can access new
drive from my desktop and partition it to my liking.
>If not, maybe there is a hardware problem (jumpers etc.).
>If you can boot the operating system from the original disk, do you
>experience a crash/hand when you try to access the new disk? That would
>point towards a software problem.
No I experience no crash here.
>You see, I am guessing. Try to tell us how your system is set up.
I boot my system using an IDE drive. I have two SCSI CD-RW drives hooked up as
well as a SCSI scanner and a 1-gig SCSI Jaz drive. What I am doing now is
booting my sytem up. Then I am running a program, on my desktop, that is
specifically designed for the Atari line of computers (bootstrap program) that
starts the installation process. I did it this way before and it worked fine.
>Does the kernel recognize the card? Output from lspci?
>Is it a problem of the kernel or of Xwindows?
>Yours,
>Laurenz Albe
I am not sure here, but I believe so. My older kernel gives me something on
my screen as long as I have the following in my boot argument file:
video=external:1024;768;8;p;0x81000000;7864320;0xb0000000;8;svga
The above does not work with the newer kernels (2.4 and 2.6) when I try to do
an installation. I can tell that the installation is working as I can see and
hear my peripherals being scannned by the installation program.
I am wondering if I just need to use the newer kernels instead of the one
Hades kernel I have which is version 2.2xxx. I am also wondering if I could
put some other statements in my argument file that would give me some video
and if so, what are they?
Laurenz, sorry about this long message, but I do not know how else to put it.
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