Re: [Gnoppix-user] booting gnoppix on a machine with an adaptec 19160 controller

[Markus Maiwald]

On Fri, 7 Nov 2003 15:07:56 +0100, Jörn Breyer <address@hidden> wrote:

> hi,
> yesterday i got my gnoppix-cd, great..

you got it..  ;-)

> But when I wanted to bott it on my machine (adaptec scsi 19160 
> controller,
> seagate cheetah hard disk using aic7xxx) a problem occured:
> The machine booted gnoppix to the point, where gnoppix probs hard 
> disks....
> and then it broke down, telling me:
>
> probing scsi aic7xxx.o

You mean it silently stops (or seems to do nothing)??

> is there a solution to this problem, do I have to specify certain boot 
> options?

I am not quiet shure. But I heard of a weird scsi-probing timeout..
Somebody told me that KNOPPIX will boot after 3-6min on his machine!
I dont know, wether this could be the same phenomenon here on Gnoppix.

But nevertheless, better to ask in newsgroups like
de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware / linux.debian.user.german
maybe they knew this phenomenon..

> I'm a newbie ;-). I know that's no excuse for stupid questions but
> if this "cry for help" annoys you, I'm sorry

There are no stupid questions - only stupid answeres!

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