[wplug] Install & boot disk problems

Eric Hsiung ehsiung at bellatlantic.net
Tue Sep 25 23:48:51 EDT 2001


How about taking the SCSI card out of the machine while 
installing Linux? You can pop it back in after everything 
is up and running and then manually configure the SCSI card.


Eric

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Powell" <billpwl1 at home.com>
To: <wplug at wplug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:12 PM
Subject: [wplug] Install & boot disk problems


> I have a 200 Mhz Win98 machine that I want to dual boot Red Hat on
> seperate IDE hard drives. This machine has an adaptec SCSI card used
> only with an external PC Card adapter.
> 
> During the install process, it hangs when trying to initialize the SCSI
> card and load the module for it. Using the EXPERT mode, I was finially
> able to get the install to not init that SCSI module. But there is a
> problem with LILO and the boot disk created during the install always
> tries to init the SCSI module and the systems hangs.
> 
> Is there any way I can modify the boot disk to NOT load that SCSI
> module?
> 
> Bill
> 
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