Topic: Driver problem with upgrade to 5.6

[Des Dougan]

I started to upgrade my test box (a Dell PowerEdge Pentium 133) from 5.1.2 to 5.6. I have to boot this box from floppy, as the SCSI CD is not bootable. I created the boot image OK, and booted up. Just before the keyboard choices screen, I got an error that /tmp/ks.cfg could not be found. I went on, and found that I couldn't get my CD to be recognized - it would appear that the driver for it (an NCR53c8xx) was not being loaded. I've looked on NCR's site, but can see no drivers for Linux. This CD was successfully recognized by 5.1.2's boot disk (I tried again to confirm).

I'd appreciate any suggestions on this one.

Thanks,

Des Dougan

[Dean]

Dougan,

I have the same problem with an on-board AIC-75xxx SCSI controller - the 5.6 installation program fails to load the driver for it. Your description of the problem is a bit misleading, though. The 5.12 boot disk loads the driver, but it won't recognise the 5.6 CD in it - it looks for the 5.12 CD which has a different directory structure.

The missing kickstart file problemI can be fixed quite easily - if you copy the from the directory on the 5.6 CD to the boot disk (either 5.12 or 5.6 version). You also need to edit the SYSLINUX.CFG file on the boot disk and replace the parameter with

That doesn't solve our problem, though - the 5.6 installation file still fails to load the SCSI drivers. I've tried the command after ticking the box *specify a parameter* on the SCSI CDROM configuration screen, but to no avail.

Can somebody give us a hand here please?