Package: boot-floppies Distribution: woody Serverity: important Hi! The current ppc boot kernel doesn't work for PROP IBM 830 machines. After detecting a NCR53c810, it cycles getting timeouts. This basically leads to an endless loop and no working installations. At least for this machine, I cured the installation by compiling current 2.4.21-rc3 with the sym53c8xx_v2 driver with "traditional" I/O (not memory-mapped I/O) activated. This worked fine for me. So I suggest to also build the sym_2 module (with non-mm'ed I/O) to get floppies working on this machine (I think it's one of the more common machines, of course after current PPC MACs...). MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(IRAQ_WAR_2 | DRM | TCPA));
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