Bug#390816: aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2002

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:06:26PM +0200, vince wrote:
> Hi everyone
> 
> I appear to have a similar problem here, this evening when I was trying
> to install Debian 4.0.4 on an old ProLiant 330 Compaq Server.
> 
> The problem appears already at 1st boot, before starting Debian install
> the system hangs with the following error message:
> aic7xxx_abort returns 0x2002
> 
> As of now, a W2K Server Edition is running on the system, so I do not
> think it is a hardware problem.
> 
> I read a lot of documentation about that, but as far as I could see the
> problem is still opened.
> 
> Is there any workaround for that?

You could try to reproduce this bug with the 2.6.24 based kernel added
in 4.0r4: http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz