On Sun, Oct 24, 1999 at 10:13:53PM +0100, Arrigo Triulzi wrote: > just wanted to report that resc1440 from disks-i386/2.2.1-1999-10-22 > fails on a Compaq DeskPro XL 5133. For those who don't know it is a > weird EISA/PCI box with a Pentium 133, 32Mb RAM and an AMD combined > SCSI/Ethernet chip. > > The floppy boots, loads Linux and then at the SCSI detection phase you > get an Oops (NULL dereference) and the kernel panics. Never even makes > it to init. > > I have tried it with Debian 2.1 boot disks i386 2.1.9-1999-03-03 and > they boot fine, recognising the SCSI adapter correctly. > > For info the contents of /proc/pci show the SCSI controller to be an > AMD 53C974 (driver AM53/79C974 PCscsi) and the Ethernet controller is > and AMD 79C970 (lance - which doesn't load complaining about a > "resource busy problem" but never mind this bit). I have the same problems with Compaq Deskpro XL and other Deskpro boxes. When I replace the kernel on the rescue disk with a custom built one it works fine. -- "Capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to." --Douglas Adams
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