Hi Oliver, On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 06:50:06PM +0200, Oliver Kiddle wrote: > Rob Dupcak wrote: > > (Some people claim to have luck with madly hitting CTRL-C before it starts > > booting - but I've never had that work.) > Thanks to all the people who answered. Madly hitting Ctrl-C did the job > and after that it was all fairly straightforward. > Only issue was that it appears to load the tulip network driver which > doesn't work. de4x5 does work nicely, however. I think that's probably > hotplug's fault. Anyone know if that's a bug I should be reporting and > what information (lspci output?) is needed. Please see bug #294867, which discusses dropping de4x5 as the preferred module for all chips. If you have a card that *needs* de4x5 to function, lspci -n and uname -a is going to be important to know. > Before I build myself a custom kernel does anyone have any suggestions > on whether I should go with 2.4 or 2.6? Is 2.6 stable on an alpha and > would it probably be slower on such old hardware? 2.6 currently has problems with support for a number of common (on alpha) qlogic chips. The corresponding driver is quite stable in 2.4.27. I've also found that I can't run hotplug on my alpha when running 2.6, as some miscellaneous driver that's loaded causes a kernel panic. Haven't tracked it down yet -- since I'm not running serial console, the details of the crash scroll off the screen and are lost. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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