Mailing List Archive: LiveCD 2004.2 fails with Dell PowerEdge 2300

LiveCD 2004.2 fails with Dell PowerEdge 2300

Oct 22, 2004, 4:33 PM

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This machine has a aic7xxx controller in it for the CDROM.
If I boot with doscsi then it will hang on the sym53c8xx driver so I
can't use do scsi. Anyway it boots then gets to the BusyBox ASH shell
saying it cant access a tty so job control won't happen. I can manually
install the modules but I don't know how to get the thing to continute
with the LiveCD boot. If I could just run linuxrc again so it would
find my CDROM that would be huge but I cannot run linuxrc under any
processid except 1. After stopping in the middle of the initrd and then
mounting my CD (to what mount point?) how do I continue the linuxrc
process to extract the squashfs and continue

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Re: LiveCD 2004.2 fails with Dell PowerEdge 2300 [ In reply to ]

colorzhang at gmail

Oct 22, 2004, 7:16 PM

Post #2 of 3 (141 views)

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my PowerEdge 1300 work fine:
smp ide=nodma noapic

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:33:01 -0700, David Busby <busby@edoceo.com> wrote:
> This machine has a aic7xxx controller in it for the CDROM.
> If I boot with doscsi then it will hang on the sym53c8xx driver so I
> can't use do scsi. Anyway it boots then gets to the BusyBox ASH shell
> saying it cant access a tty so job control won't happen. I can manually
> install the modules but I don't know how to get the thing to continute
> with the LiveCD boot. If I could just run linuxrc again so it would
> find my CDROM that would be huge but I cannot run linuxrc under any
> processid except 1. After stopping in the middle of the initrd and then
> mounting my CD (to what mount point?) how do I continue the linuxrc
> process to extract the squashfs and continue
>
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RE: LiveCD 2004.2 fails with Dell PowerEdge 2300 [ In reply to ]

busby at edoceo

Oct 25, 2004, 9:20 AM

Post #3 of 3 (148 views)

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Did you have scsi controller? My CDROM is on SCSI so I have to use the
SCSI kernel. My original question still stands: After stopping in the
middle of the initrd and then mounting my CD (to what mount point?)
how do I continue the linuxrc process to extract the squashfs and
continue?

I see a lot of discussion on how to go about this using Knoppix or some
other CD to boot, It seems that Gentoo should be able to get itself
going. This one get's almost there, it just doesn't look for my CDROM
in the right spot.

/djb

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wenju Zhang [mailto:colorzhang@gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 7:17 PM
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD 2004.2 fails with Dell
> PowerEdge 2300
>
>
> my PowerEdge 1300 work fine:
> smp ide=nodma noapic
>
>
> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 16:33:01 -0700, David Busby
> <busby@edoceo.com> wrote:
> > This machine has a aic7xxx controller in it for the CDROM.
> > If I boot with doscsi then it will hang on the sym53c8xx
> driver so I
> > can't use do scsi. Anyway it boots then gets to the
> BusyBox ASH shell
> > saying it cant access a tty so job control won't happen. I can
> > manually install the modules but I don't know how to get
> the thing to
> > continute with the LiveCD boot. If I could just run
> linuxrc again so
> > it would find my CDROM that would be huge but I cannot run linuxrc
> > under any processid except 1. After stopping in the middle of the
> > initrd and then mounting my CD (to what mount point?) how do I
> > continue the linuxrc process to extract the squashfs and continue
> >
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> >
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