any 2.6.x kernel for a DS10 with NCR 53C895 and QLogic ISP10x0 ?

["Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr]" <harbaugh@ncifcrf.gov>]

Hi-

I have a DS10 with the following configuration:

   EV6 400Mhz
   1Gb RAM
   Two scsi cards: a NCR 53C895 and QLogic ISP10x0
   No video display
   Two DE500 100bt ethernet connections (tulip)

I just installed sarge on this box using the alpha rc1 netinst image.  But I
had to use the 2.4.26-1-generic kernel because the 2.6.6-1-generic failed on
the reboot.  Here is the tail of the serial console log from the failure:

    .
    .
    .
    SCSI device sdf: 8380080 512-byte hdwr sectors (4291 MB)
    SCSI device sdf: drive cache: write through
     /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target6/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p7 p8
    Attached scsi disk sdf at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
    SCSI device sdg: 71132000 512-byte hdwr sectors (36420 MB)
    SCSI device sdg: drive cache: write back
     /dev/scsi/host1/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 p5 p6 p7 p8
    Attached scsi disk sdg at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
    Kernel bug at mm/slab.c:1530
    modprobe(234): Kernel Bug 1
    pc = [<fffffc0000354c50>]  ra = [<fffffffc0034cc94>]  ps = 0000    Not tainted
    v0 = 0000000000000000  t0 = 0000000000000000  t1 = fffffc003ff2cfa0
    t2 = fffffc000056af80  t3 = fffffc003fc5f2f0  t4 = fffffc00005f0818
    t5 = fffffffffffffff8  t6 = 0000000000000004  t7 = fffffc003f504000
    a0 = 0000000000000000  a1 = fffffffc0035763e  a2 = 000000000000003c
    a3 = 0000000000000000  a4 = fffffc003f507e28  a5 = fffffc003fc5f1e8
    t8 = 0000000000000028  t9 = fffffc0000354758  t10= 0000000000000038
    t11= 0000000000000040  pv = fffffc0000354c10  at = 0000000000000000
    gp = fffffc00005e1300  sp = fffffc003f507e88
    Trace:fffffc0000349adc fffffc0000314b84
    Code: a0480068  243f1000  2021ff00  44410002  e4400004  00000081 <000005fa>
    004caec9
    pivot_root: No sKernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
    uch file or dire ctory
    /sbin/init: 424: cannot open dev/console: No such file


I *really* want a 2.6.x kernel to run on this machine, but I am concerned that
any version I try will fail similarly to the above.

Has any out there gotten a 2.6.x kernel to work on a similarly configured alpha?
If so, which kernel version and did you have to add any special flags to the config?

Thanks,
Toni

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Toni Harbaugh-Blackford
System Administrator
Advanced Biomedical Computing Center (ABCC)
National Cancer Institute
Contractor - SAIC/Frederick