On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Chuck Lever wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Gerard Roudier wrote:
> > > i haven't seen any reference to i960 or AMI firmware.
> >
> > But your system has a subordinate PCI BUS (#1) on which your 896 is
> > installed and such a RAID option is hopefully available.
>
> i can check on this, but the server was donated to us with no
> documentation or hard drives. where would i find this option? in the
> SCSI BIOS configuration?
>
> > I have no idea about the cause that precludes 2.2.10/11 from booting on
> > your system. What I may recommend you is to make the simplest possible
> > kernel and to try to boot it. Only configure required options. The
> > SYM53C8XX driver should be fine under 2.2.10/11, so only configure this
> > one and not both NCR53C8XX and SYM53C8XX. Remove complex things as RAID,
> > module support and donnot configure drivers and options that are not
> > absolutely needed.
>
> my 2.2.11 config is pretty simple, and only includes NCR53C8xx. module
> support is enabled in the kernel, but i don't build or install any
> modules.
The NCR53C8XX support the 896 and the 810A, but the SYM53C8XX offers a
better support for the 896 and also supports the 810A.
And, by the way, the NCR53C8XX may drop support for future SYMBIOS
chips.
> i think there is a bug in the driver that is exercised by lilo. if i
> install RH6.0 and use the NCR53C8xx driver that is installed with it,
> everything works until i run lilo to install a new kernel. then the
> partition table is corrupt. i don't have much evidence of this (like a
> SCSI log) but it seems likely since things only break after running lilo.
So, donnot run lilo, but just make a bootable diskette.
A bug in the driver that would be triggered by lilo does not seem
beleivable to me. This looks like a bogus lilo config or some weird
partition table.
> since the RH6.0 installation includes the NCR driver as a module, i could
> rebuild just the module if there is a bug. otherwise, i can't install a
> new kernel on the machine.
>
> - Chuck Lever
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