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From: David R Brooks
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 00:00

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 I have just installed the Rev 4.2 Red Hat Linux.
The system is
  133MHz Pentium
  3.1GB Quantum HDD, 800MB Linux partition, 50MB swap
  32MB RAM
  Matrox Millenium video
  Creative Labs CDR 4210 CD reader/writer, on
  Adaptec AHA1520 SCSI adapter

 Installing using the official Red Hat boot floppy & CD,
the boot code was unable to recognize the CD. I get it to 
work by manually identifying the CD as "local SCSI", and
entering the magic text:

   aha152x=0x340,11,7

 The boot/install process runs fine thereafter. However,
here's the catch: the installed code cannot see the CD either
(despite being installed from it). I have added lines to 
lilo.conf as

   append = "aha152x=0x340,11,7"

 to no avail. It also seems to be baffling Red Hat themselves.

Would anyone care to offer any suggestions?

Many thanks,


--  Dave Brooks    <http://www.iinet.net.au/~daveb>
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