aic7xx system hangs

[Timothy Murphy]

Jeremy Conlin wrote:

> I did install FC2 from the CDs.  My latest installation was upgrading
> from RH9.  I know my system will boot into RH9 so that is where I
> started. 

If you upgraded from RH9, wouldn't you have the old kernel?
If that worked with RH9, it should work with FC2.

I have a machine (desktop) with SCSI only disks.
The kernel that came with FC1 did not work,
and neither did the kernel that came with FC2.
(I don't remember if the kernel that came with RH9 worked,
but the one that came with RH8 definitely did.)
But in each case I upgraded from the previous system,
and the kernel that was working on the previous system still worked.
In every case I compiled a new kernel with SCSI in the kernel,
and that worked perfectly.

I've also acquired the habit of making a boot CD with "mkbootdisk --iso"
as soon as I get the system working.

I found Knoppix and tomsrtbt both "saw" my SCSI disks,
I think in all cases.
A very old version of SuSE also saw the disks.
So why not try Knoppix?
If that sees the disks then the problem must lie in the kernel
that came with FC2.


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