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  F1consulting@bigfoot.com  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 2 Jul 1997 15:00:29 +0000 Received: (qmail 31002 invoked from network); 2 Jul 1997 15:00:25 -0000 Received: from mail3.voicenet.com (207.103.0.45) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 2 Jul 1997 15:00:24 -0000 Received: from p133 (wches123-pri.voicenet.com [207.103.113.86]) by mail3.voicenet.com (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA27311 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 11:05:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <33BA6D13.6AB2@voicenet.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:00:35 -0400 From: Michael Colligon Reply-To: F1consulting@bigfoot.com Organization: F1 Consulting, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: Problem Installing Debian Linux Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit When I try to install Debian Linux from the floppies I made according to the install.htm file that was included with the distribution, the system locks up. The messages displayed scroll past, but I have listed as many of the messages as I could below. VERSION: Linux system 1.30 96/11/04 Kernel version 2.0.27 DISTRIBUTION: Linux toolkit from Walnut Creek dated June 1997. HARDWARE: DTK 486 VLB motherboard with AMIBIOS Intel 486DX100 Overdrive processor Adaptec VL SCSI Master controller model AHA-2842A BIOS ver. 2.0 Western Digital EtherCard PLUS Elite16 ATI VGA Wonder XL Series Compudyne Boomboard noname Parallel/Serial/Game card NOTES: these have been used successfully together for some time now in MS-DOS. I removed all but the SCSI controller, and the video card and got the same results. USER ACTIONS: Boot with the Rescue Disk in drive A:. Press RETURN at the "boot:" prompt. Nothing I enter at the boot prompt seems to help. EXPECTED RESULTS: System boot and allows installation to proceed. ACTUAL RESULTS: System locks up with messages listed below. ERROR MESSAGES: One particular message that I saw before is scrolled off the screen was: ... encountered spurious interrupt Also ther following messages were dis0played long enough to see them: ... PCI BIOS not present. ... No BIOS32 extensions found. This release still depends on it. Or something very similar. The previous line mentioned something about PCI. Does Debian Linux support the Adaptec VLB controllers, or only the Adaptec PCI controllers. Here is the last screen full of messages displayed: scsi : 1 host. scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices. scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 aic7xxx: (abort) Aborting scb0, TCL 0/0/0 SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0 aic7xxx: (reset) target/channel 0/0 aic7xxx: (abort_reset) scb state 0x1, while idle, LASTPHASE=0xF3, SCSISIGI=0x0 aic7xxx: (reset_device) target/channel -1/A, active_scb 0 aic7xxx: (match_scb) comparing target channel -1/A to scb 0/A aic7xxx: (match_scb) comparing target channel -1/A to scb 0/A aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Resetting current channel A aic7xxx: (reset_channel) Channel reset, sequencer restarted aic7xxx: (done_aborted_scbs) Aborting scb 0, TCL=0/0/0 Kernel panic: scsi0: BRKADRINT, error 0x1, seqaddr0x0 In swapper task - not syncing   Bug assigned to package `boot-floppies'. Request was from Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.   Bug reassigned from package `boot-floppies' to `kernel'. Request was from Sven Rudolph <sr1@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> to control@bugs.debian.org.   Sven Rudolph <sr1@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>  Sorry, this message was lost when this bug report was restored from a backup.