On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 05:42:34PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > | > It seems to be reproducible on the CD that I'm using (which is a few > | > weeks old now) - I tried it again this morning which would make it the > | > third time I've seen it. Perhaps it might be a dodgy burn, but I would > | > have thought that this would manifest itself in different ways (i.e. not > | > being able to boot at all). > | > | Well, I don't see that I've had any other tests by alpha users with SCSI > | CD-ROMs to confirm or deny this; so it could be either a dodgy burn, or > | a kernel problem. > I've just tried today's build (20040125) from gluck.d.o, and it exhibits > the same problem as the earlier one I tried. There was also a post on > debian-alpha which sounds like it might be due to the same thing: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2004/debian-alpha-200401/msg00020.html Ah -- yes, I'd overlooked that little tidbit. Sounds like we've got *something* wrong with the devfs support in these kernels. :/ Unfortunately, I don't think I have a SCSI CDROM on hand to throw in this box and test with, so this may take some time to shake out. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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