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I hope this E-mail brings attention to the now _two failing_ RAID controllors. > > Let us, the mailinglist, known how to boot with the adaptec 2400 > > Still no luck with it; so we decided to replace that card with an IDE > controller PCI card (Promise TX2 133). > > And it's not getting any better: I installed again the system with the > "etch" netinst CD; the installation goes OK (the drives attached to the > controller PCI card are also detected). > But when grub loads the newly installed kernel, the machine reboots! (Where > previously it just freezed.) > If I remove the PCI card, the machine boots OK from the hard disk. > If I leave the card in, and boot a "sarge" system (that provides a 2.4 > kernel), the problem does not occur (no immediate reboot). > > What are the possibilities then? > > Faulty hardware: motherboard? Now, it would be a great coincidence that > both PCI cards would be defective. [I even put them in different slots.] > > Kernel bug? As the problem shows up differently (reboot vs freeze) with > each card. > Also for the IDE card, the behaviour is different for 2.4 (boot OK) and 2.6 > (freeze). > > What test can I perform in order to know whether we have to buy a new > machine? > [And still wondering why the kernel booted from the install CD works and > then doesn't when booted from the hard disk...] At the install CD is something what is called devfs. I don't known enough about devfs to explain what it is. Things I know about it are: * there is no devfs on the installed computer (as in "it is not used") * devfs is about to be removed from the installer see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/RemoveDevFS for details That limited knowledge implies that I don't have a clue if failing RAID controllors and devfs are related. Cheers Geert Stappers - -- Don't fight back, fight forward ... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHA37kOSINbgwa/7sRAtpOAKCBn3B+r+FeWQPccxLEC+sVVv1TiACeNlTf iyS8JyWFwwkaPVT+UZI52Sg= =jd2h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
