Re: Problems with 2.4. series kernels and Adaptec scsi card
Marc Barnett wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 10:42:32AM -0500, Russ Cook
> wrote:
>
>> I am still running the 2.2 series kernels on my
>> machine, because I've been unsuccessful compiling and
>> running a 2.4 series kernel. I have an Adaptec AHA-2940
>> scsi card. When the kernel tries to boot,
>
>
> I'd suggest using make-kpkg with the '--initrd' flag and
> a kernel config that has aic7xxx (CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX)
> and your root filesystem either built in or as modules.
> The resulting deb package will build an initrd image that
> will load these modules before mounting root. Remember
> to tell your boot loader to use the initrd image.
>
> If you don't use an initrd image then you have to compile
> these directly into the kernel.
>
> BTW: I use the same card, and it works fine with
> kernel-image-2.4.18-686. Start with the config that uses,
> and make your modifications from there.
>
>
I too have an AHA-2940 (UW) and I use
kernel-image-2.4.18-686 without any trouble (good thing too,
as I have Debian installed on a SCSI HD). But I am having a
SCSI-related problem with the 2.4 kernel, namely with my
other SCSI card, an Adaptec AHA-1510A (ISA), used to handle
[non-critical] external devices. I use grub to boot and I
have a line passing an argument to the kernel;
#Boot Debian 3.0 on SCSI drive
title Debian 3.0, Kernel 2.4.18
root (hd1,1)
kernel (hd1,0)/vmlinuz-2.4.18-686 root=/dev/sda2 aha152x=0x340,9
initrd (hd1,0)/initrd.img-2.4.18-686
(grub is installed on an IDE drive that holds Windows - grub
had to be placed there in order to boot Windows because of
the mixture of IDE and SCSI, which is why it is hd1 and not
hd0.)
When I use the 2.2.20 kernel, this works fine. Not so with
the 2.4.18 kernel image. I even tried using 'insmod aha152x'
but it returns an error message telling me that there is no
such device and that such "errors can be caused by incorrect
module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters".
I suppose I could recompile, but, being sort of lazy I'd
prefer not to quite yet... plus I'm really not sure why it
is giving me grief with insmod.
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