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Re: updated kernels / miata sound



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

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