Bug#70798: UDMA66 boot problem/HPT370
BTW, guys, perhaps you can try this as a workaround.
I'm assuming perhaps the promise ultra 66 controller has the same
problems as the HTP370 ? I dunno.
Karl Hammar <karl@kalle.csb.ki.se> writes:
> To install debian potato on an abit kt7-raid motherboard:
> (well, this is what I roughly did)
>
> 1 Connect your disk to the first ide controller,
> not to the HTP370 controller
> 2 I used the debian/dists/potato/main/disks-i386/
> 2.2.20.0.1-2000-12-03/images-1.44/idepci disk set
> 3 boot and install as usual
> 4 download and unpack kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.18.tar.gz
> 5 download and apply patch kernel/people/hedrick/
> ide.2.2.18.1209.patch.gz
> 6 make menuconfig -> Block devices:
> [*] Generic PCI IDE chipset support
> ...
> [*] HPT366 chipset support
> Don't know about theese two but they seem to work for me
> [*] HPT366 Fast Interrupt support (WIP)
> [*] HPT366 mode three unsupported (WIP)
> (Note! this driver has no raid support, you just get the udma100
> support and two more controllers, only connect discs to hpt
> controller)
> and whatever else you want in the kernel
> 7 make dep; make bzImage; make modules; make modules_install
> 8 cp arch/.../bzImage System.map to /boot
> 9 add new image to lilo.conf with root=/dev/hdexx instead of hda
> 10 run lilo
> 11 change hda to hde in /etc/fstab
> 12 shutdown -h now
> 13 poweroff
> 14 move disk cable to first HPT370 connector
> 15 boot
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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