Re: Installation problem with tyan mainboard

[Mattias Wadenstein <maswan@acc.umu.se>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Thierry Dumont wrote:

> I cannot install debian-amd64 on my Tyan based machine.
> This problem looks like a previous one, posted here some weeks ago.
>
> PROBLEM: instalation "freeze" after loading the scsi driver.
>
> BUT: actually, I have succeded one installation (3 weeks ago); after 
> upgrading the system (and the kernel) some days ago, I could not reboot. So, 
> I decided to reinstall...When the system whas working (before I upgraded
> it), it was also difficult to reboot the machine, with a lot of "retry"
> of the scsi driver during the boot sequence.

Yes, I have similar problems. I have not gotten a modern kernel running on 
it.

[snip]
> 4) I load mptscsih ....
>
> and here, the machine freezes.
>
> any idea ?

Yes, I have seen this. I have no solution so far. Can you see if an 
upstreams kernel have the same problem?

/Mattias Wadenstein