Subject: Re: Install Problems YDL2.1 on beige mac clone
From: Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
Date: Sat Jan 05 2002 - 11:36:02 MST
Can you "swap" the two drives and make the Linux drive the first drive on the
primary scsi bus? Just a thought ... it may help. Also, how are you
formatting your partitions manually? Are you using the installer to format or
some other way? What is the device for your linux partiton?
-- Avinash Gupta (agupta@mediaone.net)
On Saturday 05 January 2002 01:08, you wrote:
> I'm starting to think there is a SCSI driver problem. I'm working on a
> powerwave which has two scsi buses (it uses the same motherboard as the
> 9500). The installer always finds the CD drive. However, on most formatting
> attempts of the linux partition, I get scsi i/o errors (for some reason the
> swap partition formats fine). I've tried disconnecting the external scsi
> bus devices with no difference. The device I am trying to format/install is
> the second drive on the primary scsi bus. The drive seems to run fine in
> MacOS 9.1. I have used both kernel loads from the bootx installer with the
> same results. Using text vs graphical installer doesn't seem to make a
> difference. Ramdisk sizes is 64000 (i've tried up to 128k with no
> difference). I've played with partition size and order with no repeatable
> differences. I've even tried another disk on the external scsi bus with no
> difference.
>
> Are there any parameters I should try? Any other ideas? Frustration level
> is running high....:)
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