Installation RH9.0 on DELL PowerEdge 2200

Waldher, Travis R Travis.R.Waldher at boeing.com
Tue Jun 7 23:16:00 UTC 2005



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rick Stevens [mailto:rstevens at vitalstream.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 11:03 AM
> To: Getting started with Red Hat Linux
> Subject: Re: Installation RH9.0 on DELL PowerEdge 2200
> 
> Uher, Lubomir wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > many thanks for your response.
> >
> > I can boot only from floppy drive, because without driver RH9.0
doesn't
> > recognize SCSI controller on DELL PC.
> >
> > I mean, that CDROM drive isn't still working. System was recognized
only
> > ADAPTEC SCSI controller, but no SCSI CDROM drive. I supposed, that
> system
> > found CDROM drive automatically.
> >
> > Could you give some direction for this issue ?
> 
> When the BIOS comes up on the machine, does the CD show up on the IDE
> controller or the SCSI controller?  Does the BIOS even see the
Adaptec?
> 
> The RH9 CDs should absolutely recognize any Adaptec SCSI controller
with
> the 78xx or 79xx chipset.  The floppy should also, if you used the
> bootdisk.img file to create it.

Beyond that, if the CDROM drive is functioning properly, the RH9.0 CD
should at least ATTEMPT to boot.  You shouldn't need to use the floppy.




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