Gerard Roudier wrote:
>
> 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.
Try a UP kernel instead of SMP. There is a bug between lilo and S450NX
motherboards relating to EBDA stompage. That may be effecting things here.
If that helps, then grab the lilo out of the rawhide tree as it should have
the fix for this already in it (thanks to Leonard Zubkoff for that).
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