On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 03:04:52PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > Hello Steve, > On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 05:59:42PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > > Thanks to Peter De Schrijver, I believe we've finally located the bug > > that's made 2.4.2x kernel-image packages so horrible to use on such a > > wide range of alphas. Reverting a Debian-specific patch to the PCI > > initialization code has resulted in 2.4.26 kernel images that are known > > to work on three different alphas that showed various problems with > > ethernet/SCSI drivers when booting the official kernel-images. > Could this be a similar issue as the one I debugged with Herbert, i.e. > bug #241185? Debian AND stock kernels broke for me at 2.4.21 as well, and > Herbert finally came up with some patches which made it recognize my > Adaptec (and hence be able to be used). He was not very clear in his > final message but said: > OK that's good. So reverting my change to core_cia should fix the > problem. I think the new maintainers will do that in the next release > anyway so this bug can be closed then. Yes, the code in question is precisely that in core_cia. > I downloaded the iso and will try to run it tonight to see if it boots > and recognizes both IDE and SCSI (for the former I needed ide=nodma). Sorry for wasting your bandwidth on the broken iso. I'll post again as soon as I have 2.4.26 working in d-i. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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