On Tue June 6 2006 05:11, Michael Cree wrote: > Unfortunately I can't get that kernel to work on the XP1000 - I'm not > using the onboard scsi and I specifically compile kernels such that > it can't load the Qlogic scsi controller module (since the qlogic > module barfs randomly and badly on this machine). The debian kernel > loads the qlogic controller, presumably misnames all the scsi discs, > and fails at the pivot_root. If I knew how it named the various > discs I might be able to give a boot parameter to find the root drive. I believe the qlogic module has recently been superceeded by the qla1280 module (the more robust qla1280 was recently extended to handle the qlogic chips, as the qlogic driver was lacking [at least] proper error handling). -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF London, Ontario, Canada
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