How does one use 'noautodetect'?

1998-12-21 Thread Nigel Rowe
What magic incantation is required at the LILO prompt to use the 'noautodetect' option? > Subject: RELEASE: RAID-0,1,4,5 patch 1998.12.14, 2.0.36/2.1.131-ac9 . . . > - 'noautodetect' > > there is a new 'noautodetect' kernel boot option, which can be used to > skip autodetection even if partit

Re: Linux and AMI MegaRAID

1998-12-21 Thread Mark Plaksin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fabio Belletti) writes: > Dear sir, > > we have several installation problems with Linux RedHat 5.2 + AMI driver > (boot and supp downloaded disks) with our Dual Pentium II server with AMI > MegaRaid controller! ... > <7> PENDING = 0 IN_ISR = 0, mbox.busy = f0 > <7>

Re: Linux and AMI MegaRAID

1998-12-21 Thread Geof Goodrum
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Fabio Belletti wrote: > we have several installation problems with Linux RedHat 5.2 + AMI driver > (boot and supp downloaded disks) with our Dual Pentium II server with > AMI MegaRaid controller! > > Our 'MADRONA' system is equipped with MB 440LX, dual 300 Mhz Pentium II, >

showstopper FIXED Re: kernel panic hm ??

1998-12-21 Thread Carlos Carvalho
I'm VERY happy to say that Ingo's one-liner did fix the panics. Like others, I'd have to step back to the previous version if the bug persisted. Everything is working fine now. I'm just waiting for the fix that will make the resync threads disappear :-)

Re: kernel panic hm ??

1998-12-21 Thread Peter Tillemans
At 02:42 PM 12/18/98 -0200, Carlos Carvalho wrote: >Peter Tillemans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on 18 December 1998 15:35: > >I have the same error using gcc-2.7.2.3. > >Good, I mean, it's not an egcs problem :-) >... > >This morning the same 'Kernel panic hm ??' > >Did you see Ingo's reply to the l

RE: Raid error?

1998-12-21 Thread David Harris
Hi, I feel stupid. Trying to fsck a drive in readonly mode could cause problems... duh. It's too late. I'll be getting some sleep now. Sorry for the bother, everyone. - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services

RE: Raid error?

1998-12-21 Thread David Harris
Hi, Rrr.. Found the problem this time.. someone's software can't deal with a single "." on a line. I suspect it's the list-serv software, because this kind of error could easily happen on a pipe to sendmail. Sorry to bother all of you not interested in this post. - David Harris Principal En

RE: Raid error?

1998-12-21 Thread David Harris
Hi, This is a re-send. The first time I sent the message it was truncated somewhere along the line. - David Harris Principal Engineer, DRH Internet Services -Original Message- From: David Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 21, 1998 1:01 AM To: MOLNAR I

Raid error?

1998-12-21 Thread David Harris
Hi, Somehow my server ended up rebooting (how I don't know) and failed when trying to fsck the filesystem on one of my raid devices. Have _no_ idea why the system failed, but it did. The error message on the fsck seems to indicate a problem reading the underlying block device, /dev/md2. (It says