Pl 5000 Install - More

[Robert Slade]

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 10:14, Robert Slade wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 22:40, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > Robert Slade wrote:
> > > The beast is a Quad Processor PII with a Compaq Smart -2/P controller
> > > and the CD is a Yamaha CRW2100S on the Second port of the Controller. 
> > > 
> > > From Gogling, I have found that the problem with RH in older versions
> > > did not have support for the SCSI controller built in (NCR53c8xx?).
> > 
> > Hmm. Any chance you can get it to do a network install? You might find
> > this a lot easier than getting the installer to recognise the CD.
> > 
> > Hope this helps,
> > 
> > James.
> > 
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> 
> Thanks James. I've been 'playing' with this some more. The problem seems
> to occur right at the start The boot loader starts and tries to read the
> CD. I get a list of messages which say something like iso image found at
> 00 and all the steps up to 9A (not sure about this as it goes by rather
> fast). It looks like the Kernel at initial boot is seeing it as a series
> of tracks (or images) rather than 1. Perhaps the problem lies with the
> Kernal being booted initially.
> 
> I can get to the initial screen, and I can enter the mem=1048M (to
> correct the mis read of the memory). I have tried the noprobe option too
> so I can add the drivers manually but the machine dies with the message
> Cannot open root device "NULL>" or unknown - block (8,3). etc. I have
> tried putting in root=cd0, but that did not work either - I got the same
> message with CD0 instead of the NULL before getting anywhere I can load
> drivers etc. 
> 
> I don't know if this is relevant, but the machine uses EISA and PCI
> architecture.
> 
> I have ruled out the FC3 disks as they installed ok on another machine.
> The machine runs Free BSD 5.3 rather slowly as the free BSD Kernal does
> not support the multi processor option.
> 
> 
> Rob  

I have now tried FC2 and that has the same problem :-(.

Rob
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