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Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 11:00:35 -0400
From: Michael Colligon <colligon@voicenet.com>
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Subject: Problem Installing Debian Linux
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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