On Sunday 24 February 2002 10:10 pm, Gregoire Favre wrote: > On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 05:36:21PM +0100, Juan Quintela wrote: > > >>>>> "claudio" == Claudio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > claudio> Hi all! > > claudio> Is it normal that I always have to reboot twice before running > > Linux, because claudio> in 100% of the cases I got kernel "loop error" at > > first first boot? It's claudio> related to aic-7xxx controller, of > > course, but is it normal? does it happen claudio> to anyone? is it a > > mandrake problem or a kernel problem? > > > > please: > > > > send me the output of lspci -vvv > > and try to use aix7xxx_old instead and told me if that works for you. > > As you suppose, it is not normal that it fails, and it don't fails > > ever in my machine here. > > Plase have a look at linux-kernel mailing list: it's a know problem with > some adapters... it's not cooker dependant ;-))
OK, it works fine with the following procedure: *) subst. aic7xxx --> aic7xxx_old in /etc/modules.conf *) rebuild initrd.img *) run lilo So no more "kernel loop" now :o) C. -- Claudio Panichi System/Network Admin at Dept. of Physics "Tor Vergata" University and INFN - Sec. "Roma II" Remote System is: LINUX Mandrake
