I'm installing Red Hat Linux 7.0 on an old dual P-90 with 16 MB of RAM. I'm doing an NFS install. The only hard drive in the system is a SCSI drive (which apparently has an old Red Hat 6.X on it) contected to a ncr53c8xx SCSI card. I boot the install with "linux dd", and have a driver disk (with I also use for my Etherworks 3 network card). I eventually get a "No Drives Found". I think the problem is not with the drives, but with the SCSI driver kernel module. In the screen accessible by ALT-F2, I see the following: * probing buses * finished bus probing * found suggestion of ncr53c8xx * found nothing And then a few "insmod"s. What I am missing is a "insmod ncr53c8xx". I don't think the appropriate module is getting loaded. Also, I don't totally know what this means, but ALT-F4 includes: <4> scsi : 0 hosts <4> scsi : detected total. Your help in getting Red Hat Linux 7.0 to install properly on this system is appreciated.
I have now verified that the problem is indeed that the installer fails to load the module. I switched to the shell at ALT-F2 during the "Welcome to Red Hat" screen. Then I dug around and figured out how to extract the ncr53c8xx driver and manually insert it. I switched back, and was able to continue the install.
Similar (though perhaps different, I can't tell) problems have been reported before. Cross-reference bugs 8364, 7567, 6407, 852. Some may be a different problem. As stated, I have determined that mine is simply a matter of failing to load the module even after it is detected.
Brock please reproduce.
reassigning these to dale for further review ...
I have verified this. If you boot with "linux dd", then choose your ethernet card from the drivers.img disk and have scsi the scsi driver will never get loaded, so you can not install.
Good spot -- fixed in CVS.