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Re: Bug#247455: The istallion module prevents the machine from restarting.



On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 09:51:11PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 03:58:13PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> > 
> >   I do have that board installed. Currently I am using only 1 out of its
> > 32 ports. That port seems to work. I do intent to use more ports.
> 
> OK, can you please boot a clean system using init=/bin/bash, and
> then load istallion without actually using it? If that still breaks
> the reboot, we can start debugging the init code in it.
> 


  I don't understand you. What do you mean by `boot a clean system'?

  Perhaps I should point out that my /etc/modprobe.d/istallion is the 
following:

    options  istallion  board0=ONboard,0x240,0xe0000
    install  istallion  /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install istallion;  \
                            /usr/local/bin/stallion/stlload  \
		                         -i /usr/local/bin/stallion/2681.sys

The hardware will not be fully functional without the 2681.sys firmware.
I think that when I boot with

    root=/dev/sdb1 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS1,9600n8 init=/bin/bash

I get a prompt from the initrd. And /usr is not mounted. With this way
of booting, the system will restart after a `reboot -f' if I don't 
`modprobe istallion', and won't restart if I do `modprobe istallion'.
  It might be worth pointing out that even without the firmware, the 
istallion module can tell whether it did or didn't find the hardware.

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