Acer Altos 9000

Acer Altos 9000

Post by alex4920 » Thu, 20 Nov 2003 02:47:29



I was gifted a nice old relic here...

An acer altos 9000 with dual pentium 166 processors and 196mb ram.. also
about a dozen scsi drives to go with it...  I'm trying to get slackware
linux installed on it, but i get a lot of segmentation errors during
boot.. a lot of them.  Sometimes i'll get through the boot and try
fdisk (i installed one ide drive for / and /boot) and i can do that,
but then when i try to start setup, it just seg faults and dies.  I'm
thinking this is something specific with the altos.

Does anyone know of any good how-to or faqs about installing linux
(slackware) on an Acer Altos 9000?

Thanks for your help.

--
-alex49201

 
 
 

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I have an Acer Altos 7000 computer (Pentium, 32Mb RAM, 3.6Gb HDD
Micropolis 1936)

I have tried to install Linux Slackware 2.1.0, using the scsi boot
disk, unsuccessfully.

I got the following messages while trying to boot:

aha274x warning: ignoring channel B of 274x-twin
aha274x: extened translation disable
AHA274X AT EISA SLOT 9:
      irq 11
      bus release time 60 bclks
      data fifo threshold 100%
      SCSI CHANNEL A:
          scsi id 7
          scsi bus parity check enabled
          scsi selection time out 256ms
          scsi bus reset at power-on enabled
          scsi bus termination disabled
scsi 0: Adaptec AHA274x/284x (EISA/Vl-bus Fast SCSI) 1.28/1.11/1.29
scsi: 1 host
scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, scsi 0, lun 0, test
unit ready 00 00 00 00
scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, scsi 0, lun 0, test
unit ready 00 00 00 00
scsi host 0 abort() timed out - resetting
aha274x: attempting to reset scsi bus and card
scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, scsi 0, lun 0, test
unit ready 00 00 00 00

Only a hard reset will correct the situation....
Acer's BIOS is : EISA Pentium Bios V1.2R3
                       Adaptec AIC-7770 BIOS v1.1

Anybody with the same problem...???

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