Re: tlug: August 8th Meeting Notes

[Jonathan Byrne - 3Web <jq@example.com>]

On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Joe Marchak wrote:

>Best surprise of the meeting:  Jonathan's 5000 yen Sparc 2, labeled as
>defective at the store, booted as soon as memory was added!    

Well, maybe.  After it gets through the POST and starts booting Linux,
it gets past recognizing the SCSI drives, goes a little further, then
gets a whole ton of SCSI bus resets and such, then eventually dumps me
at a console for corrective action.  fsck seems to be able to access all
disks and doesn't seem to be finding any problems, but I can never get
past this point in the boot process.  I'll double check all my cable
connections tonight, but if that isn't the problem, is this likely:

1)  A bad SCSI controller, or 
2)  A problem between Linux and a good SCSI controller (There was
some problem with some SCSI controllers on 4c machines Vs. Linux,
right?).

TIA,

Jonathan

Jonathan Byrne
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