Subject: RS/6000 F50: there is hope for us...?
From: Thomas T. Soares (ttsoares@orion.ufrgs.br)
Date: Sat Aug 26 2000 - 21:57:56 MDT
Chih-Chang Hsieh wrote:
> We have an IBM RS/6000 7025 F50 workstation, but fail to install
> YDL Linux (CS 1.2) on it.
> When I boot it with YDL floppy (Linux kernel is 2.2.15), it steps ok
> until fell into a resetting loop:
>
> SCSI host 0 abort (pid0) timeout - resetting
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
> sym53c8xx_reset: pid=0 reset_flags=2 serial_number=1
> serial_number_at_timeout=1
> ... (repeated with new serial_number)
How could be possible my RS/6000 7025 F50 has a NCR 53c825 if it
is the exact same model than yours?
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Jonathan Belson <jon@dookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> Heh heh. Yes, this is a well-known problem. My solution was
> to install Debian.
Can I use Debian with the F50 RS/6000??
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In my case the installation was a piece of cake... the pain is to
have to boot from floppy until now :-(
No one, in this planet, was able to deal with the OF monster until
now!!
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