CentOS - Jun 2008 - Problems installing 5.1 on a Tyan Thunder HEsl with a SCSI controller

Hi,

I'm trying to install 5.1 using the onboard LSI Symbios 53C1010, and I'm
running into some trouble.  When the computer first boots, the SCSI BIOS
sees the three HDDs, but when I go to install, the installer hangs for a
while at inserting the sym53c8xx driver and if I go over to the screen
on F4 it shows that it is trying to scan the SCSI bus and is resetting
all of the IDs.  Once that is done, it moves on the the actual
installer, but does not see any drives.

I'm kind of at a loss at the moment.  I feel like there would be a
kernel boot option that I could give the installer, but I don't know
what that would be.  I know the SCSI IDs of the three HDDs (and the
controller), is there a way to say "just use these IDs and move
along"?

I'm currently downloading a Fedora 9 CD (I don't have a spare DVDROM) to
see if a newer kernel will help, as going back down to CentOS 5.0 didn't
(I had it at hand).

Thanks for any help!


--Tim

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 at 9:03pm, Timothy Selivanow wrote
> I'm trying to install 5.1 using the onboard LSI Symbios 53C1010, and
I'm
> running into some trouble.  When the computer first boots, the SCSI BIOS
> sees the three HDDs, but when I go to install, the installer hangs for a
> while at inserting the sym53c8xx driver and if I go over to the screen
> on F4 it shows that it is trying to scan the SCSI bus and is resetting
> all of the IDs.  Once that is done, it moves on the the actual
> installer, but does not see any drives.
Have you tried all the usual SCSI voodoo -- check the cables, check your 
termination, ensure you used the proper color goat?

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
QB3 Shared Cluster Sysadmin
UCSF