Re: Debian Rescue Floppy / Adaptec bug redux
It has been suggested that the bug might be one of:
1, buggy adapted driver, update to aic5.1.15
2, conflict between adapted driver/card and WD-7000 SCSI driver/card
3, BIOS problem
To find out which one it is:
if 1, try to boot with e.g. ftp://kalle.csb.ki.se/pub/* or Marcelo's disks
if 2, try with disk without WD-7000 driver
if 3, how do we test that?
>Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 22:35:53 -0500 (CDT)
>From: Ossama Othman <othman@cs.wustl.edu>
>Subject: Re: Debian Rescue Floppy / Adaptec bug redux
Seems to have tried route 1 and 2:
>Nope. The problem exists with 2.2 kernels as well. I had to create
>Adaptec-only rescue disks for both 2.0.x and 2.2.x kernels in order for
>our hardware to boot properly (i.e w/o crashing everytime a SCSI probe
>is done).
My success with a 2.2.4 disk was with an adaptec only disk!
So this seems to rule out cause/solution 1.
And we also see that 2 works, at least for Ossama and my 2.2.4 install.
So I propose (quick fix for slink):
* make like standard slink resc/drv disks but omit the WD-7000
* test that disks
I'm to busy at the moment (preparing a Linux device drivers course) so
someone else must do this.
(In the longer run one would probably choose the initrd approch as
suggested in debian-boot)
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