On Tue, Apr 20, 1999 at 02:56:26PM +0200, Karl B. Hammar wrote: > I resently did an install on an Transtac box, with a double aic7xxx > something on the motherboard. The 2.0.36 kernel based resc.disc did fail, > but when I put a vanilla 2.2.4 kernel on the resc.disc it did succed and I > could finish the install. Also the SuSE made kernel based on 2.0.36 also > worked.
I'm still waiting for a user here to tell me if the rescue disks I gave him worked or not. I know 2.2.x doesn't have this problems (2.2.5 contains aic drivers 5.1.13) but the problem is we can't use 2.2.x on the rescue floppy. I tried several solutions: one is using a newer aic driver (5.1.15, 2.0.36 on the rescue floppy from 3/3 contains 5.1.11, IIRC), another one is using a SuSE-like approach (like Slackware, they have tons of kernels compiled). RH doesn't have these problems because they use a totally different solution, namely, an initial ramdisk from where modules are loaded _after_ the kernel boots. > So whatever didn't work on 2.0.36 is fixed with 2.2.4 for this > motherboard, and also SuSE made something work for 2.0.36. Would someone take a look at their kernel sources? I had a few problems installing 5.1.15 over a debianized kernel source for 2.0.36 (2.0.36-3), because there are some other SCSI patches already applied (MCA SCSI I recall, but that wasn't a really problem) > Fetch patch in e.g. ftp://ftp.uk.kernel.org > /pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.0.37pre/2.0.37/2.0.37-pre-patch-9.bz2, > and a vanilla 2.0.36 kernel (I have not tested it against debian's 2.0.36), > in /pub/linux/kernel/linux-2.0.36.tar.gz I also did this. It's using aic drivers 5.1.13, I _think_ (/me has lousy memory), but I guess it's not going to be that easy to convince Richard to let in a different kernel for slink. Asking arround I found a few more machines with 788x's on them... this is going to sound stupid, but I better ask anyway. The funny thing with these machines is they _do_ have onboard 788x's but they don't have _any_ SCSI device attached. Would the precense of the host adapter alone trigger the problem? I have to talk the people in charge of these boxes into "letting me power cycle them just to test a boot floppy -- it'll be a just few minutes downtime... promise!", but I don't want to find out the boot floppies work just because nothing is attached to the adapters... Marcelo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
