[Devil-Linux-discuss] devil-linux-1.1.1-2003-11-04-i586-SMP-bs, was: newsforge articel

[Jeroen R. <roo...@xs...>]

On 5-11-2003 00:07, I wrote:

> It isn't anywhere near me, and BTW it's already in (sadly 20 kilometres 
> away). Persistence pays!

I've got it, but it doesn't quite work yet.

It manages to recognize the SCSI controller (AM53C974) to which the 
CD-ROM is attached without me having to tell it that, but ultimately it 
stops somewhere in the process when it needs to load the etc.tar.bz2 off 
some storage medium. It apparently can't find any USB storage, which is 
often the case on pre-USB machines, but then stops; it does not even try 
to access the floppy drive. The kernel complains about a "Floppy 
controller not found".

Also, the kernel has problems with the HDD, a 64 MB Apacer S-ADM, but it 
could be that the real problem is with the filesystem on it instead. 
Anyway, it keeps telling me "hda: lost interrupt", "DriveReady 
SeekComplete Error", "DriveStatusError".

It wants to do a partition check on it 
("/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0:<3>hda: lost interrupt"), tries out 
some more SCSI/RAID drivers in the mean time, and keeps telling me about 
hda losing its interrupt. In the end, it says:

waiting until usb-storage driver has initialized all devices ...
searching for configuration media

and finally

Please insert Configuration Media and press 'ENTER'

Having inserted the floppy with the bzipped etc tarball already, I press 
Enter and find it does not even try to access the floppy drive.

Any hints?


     Jeroen Roovers