Hello, I'm consistently being hit with the following error messages trying to install debian 'potato' on a couple of sparc lx's (96 meg ram, 2.1 gig Quantum Grand Prix drive):
The following error messages are repeated in an endless loop at various different times after the base install of the potato installation: esp0: DMA error a4400202 esp0: Resetting scsi bus esp0: scsi bus reset interrupt esp0: hoping for msgout I *think* the problem is based on the fact that the sparc drives I have might be failing to handle probing for multiple LUNs on startup [1] which seems to be the default way sparc kernels are built. Unfortunatly, I can't get to a point where I can build a kernel without multiple LUN support without being hit by these messages flodding the screen and locking the machines up. If this is indeed the problem (which, I'm not entirely sure is the case), I'm installing via the network. Are there any alternative installation sites that I can point to in the install scripts that will load a default kernel *without* multiple LUN support? Any help in confirming this is indeed the problem (and more importantly how to fix this :) are very much appreciated, --eric [1] http://lists.openresources.com/Debian/debian-sparc/msg00628.html