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BelGarion
11-29-2003, 10:37 AM
Adaptec AHA-2940AU - Sony CD-RW CRX160S (Bus0, Target 0, Lun 0)

Does not boot up bootable cds, it will say a bootable cd is found but when it gets to the point in the bios which it scans for the first available boot media (Scsi , Floppy, HDD is the boot sequence set up in BIOS) it locks up. All except Debian's BR 2.4 (Cd #5) flavor, it'll display the word SysLinux then freeze up. I have tried Debian vanilla (disc 1) 3.0 R0, SuSE 9.0, Mandrake 9.2, Debian BR 2.4 (Cd #5) 3.0R1 , and for the heck of it, Windows XP Pro . All the same results except Debian BR 2.4. That gave an edited boot up message. The rest stated a bootable cd was detected, only BR 2.4 also said that the CD was drive A and the existing drive A had become drive B.

hard candy
12-01-2003, 05:26 PM
With the scsi drive, I would try a bootable floppy from one of the distros to get things rolling. There is a site on the webb that has floppy boot images available and each distro should have info on making a boot floppy.