[ale] Installing RH onto a IBM PC Server 704

[James P. Kinney III]

That sounds like the scsi module is wrong. Try booting from the boot
floppy you made during installation. You may need to do some boot line
editing to tell the scsi controller some parameters it needs. What scsi
controller does this beast have?

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 09:00, John Cole wrote:
> Howdy all!
> 
> We have an old IBM PC Server 704 that I'm trying to re-use as a linux
> server.  It has a Quad PPro-200, 1GB ram, 12 4.3GB drives.  RH 7.3 installs
> just fine.  After it reboots it kernel panics on the SCSI controller.  It
> goes into a loop saying SCSI 0:0:0 does not exist for a few seconds then it
> kernel panics.
> 
> Has anyone successfully installed linux (specifically RH) onto this type of
> machine?  What did you have to do to get it working?  Are there any other
> distributions of linux that work better on this hardware?
> 
> Thanks,
> John Cole, TICSA
> 
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