Re: d-i install failure on Alpha
As it has been discussed many times in the past, the qlogic isp driver is
broken on the alpha architecture. Use the Feral driver.
Best Regards,
--George
On Wednesday 04 February 2004 20:14, Jim Crilly wrote:
> In a previous message to debian-alpha I mentioned a problem with the
> qlogicisp driver. The symptoms seem to show that when nothing is
> connected to channel 0 on the card it 'hangs' the machine while it
> infinitely retries to find a device on channel 0, id 0, lun 0 and never
> moved on to channel 1. I have nothing on channel 0 because it has a
> 68-pin connector and all of the SCSI drives in that machine are 50-pin
> which is what channel 1 is, it all I had to do was move a cable I would
> have done that already but sadly it's not that simple.
>
> The error message repeated over and over (about 1/second) is: "scsi :
> aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel0, id 0, lun 0,
> Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00"
>
> Since I know that a pristine kernel.org 2.4.24 tree boots fine I
> downloaded the kernel-source-2.4.24 package to compile it and see what
> happened (the kernel-image-2.4.24-1-generic package gave me problems,
> but that's a different issue) and when it booted it did the same thing
> as the kernel on the d-i image. Like I also mentioned in the other email
> I believe the problem appeared at 2.4.20 (i.e. 2.4.19 works fine). I
> gave a quick look to the differences between the extract
> kernel-source-2.4.24 and the kerne.org 2.4.24 trees but I didn't see
> anything, but that's not surprising since my kernel development
> knowledge is extremely thin.
>
> For the record this is a Digital PWS600au with a QLogic "new isp1020
> revision ID (5)" according to the 2.6.0-mm2 kernel driver, although SRM
> 'sho con' says 1040, not sure if that's important. If you need any more
> information let me know.
>
> Please CC me on any correspondence as I'm not subscribed to debian-boot.
>
> As a side note, I was wondering if a 2.6 kernel would be an option for
> d-i? I know 2.4 will most likely be the default but it would be nice to
> have the option.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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