In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
=?us-ascii?Q?Andr=E9?= Dahlqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Don't get me wrong, I am personally really excited that reiserfs was
included. I just thought that you basically wanted 2.4.1 to be "boring".
Reiserfs inclusion in 2.4.1 was basically the plan for the very
Hi!
Is there a safe way to add debug information like simple string prints in
arch/i386/boot/compressed/head.s and in arch/i386/kernel/head.S
so that I can see at the console where the boot process hangs?
Time for another version of my VIDEO_CHAR patch.]
What abourt early_printk? Works
Hi,
on 2.2.17 2.2.18 we have this kernel panic:
it begins with:
no vm86_info: BAD
ksymoops 2.3.7 on i686 2.2.18RAID. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.2.18RAID/ (default)
-m /usr/src/linux/System.map
(CC'd to lkml)
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:31:33PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
There is something wrong with your hardware. First region for G400 should
be 32MB, not 16MB (even if you have 16MB G400, which I doubt).
Ooo! Here's an edited diff of 'lspci -v' under 2.2.18 versus 2.4.0:
Hi Paul,
2) Other block I/O output (eg dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdi bs=4M) also
run very slowly
What do you notice when running "top" and doing the above?
Does the "buff" value grow high (+700MB), with high CPU usage?
If so, I think this might be down to nr_free_buffer_pages().
This
Hi again.
The following patch should correct the request_irq mistake. (The zero return
on failure seems to be required by scsi/scsi.c and is what everybody else
does.)
Other comments? :)
--- linux-ac9/drivers/scsi/atari_scsi.c.org Sun Jan 14 19:41:56 2001
+++
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:37:57PM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
don't assume that the way your system gets booted is the way everybody's does,
particularly those on platforms other than the x86.
I must say, as a 5 year Linux user (and 23 year UNIX user/administrator), I do
get tired of
** Reply to message from "Christopher Friesen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on
Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:54:23 -0500
The Mac never enumerates its devices like the PC does (no C: D: etc, no
/dev/sda, /dev/sdb, or anything like that). It also remembers the boot device
in its EEPROM (the Startup Disk
With all of the late 2.3 kernels, 2.4 test kernels, and the latest
official 2.4.0 kernel that I have tried, I get disturbing behavior during
and after heavy disk access, such as uploading a 500MB file from the local
network. This action causes my screen to go blank in X and remain blank
unless I
David Woodhouse writes:
There are patches available for the 2.2 kernel which provide the facility
to mount by UUID or volume label. It seems that nobody is actively
maintaining those at the moment. If you want to update those to the current
2.2 and 2.4 kernels, well volunteered.
I'm quite
You write:
If we install a SCSI hard disk drive, with ID3, an nothing on ID1 or ID2,
will be sda. If we install a new disk on ID1, the drive that before was
sda now change the name to sdb.
Why the name of hard disk drive of SCSI Controller are not fixed?
ID0=sda
ID1=sdb
ID2=sdc
There
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:01:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:37:57PM -0500, Michael Meissner wrote:
don't assume that the way your system gets booted is the way everybody's does,
particularly those on platforms other than the x86.
I must say, as a 5 year Linux
On 16 Jan 01 at 21:17, Urban Widmark wrote:
The smbfs dircache needs to find/kmap all of its cache pages since the
entries in it are variable length and the way it is called. It would be
nice to change that.
I haven't looked at all your detailed comments yet. They may not matter if
the
On 16 Jan 01 at 15:55, Chad Miller wrote:
(CC'd to lkml)
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 07:31:33PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
There is something wrong with your hardware. First region for G400 should
be 32MB, not 16MB (even if you have 16MB G400, which I doubt).
Ooo! Here's an edited diff
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0600, Rodney M. Jokerst wrote:
This action causes my screen to go blank in X and remain blank
unless I move the mouse or type on the keyboard. The second I stop doing
one of these activities, it goes blank again. While it is blank, it seems
to be flashing
John Fremlin wrote:
"Albert D. Cahalan" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1) top (procps-2.0.7) gives me the messages :
'bad data in /proc/uptime'
'bad data in /proc/loadavg'
cat /proc/uptime
1435.30 904.74
cat /proc/loadavg
0.01 0.21 0.29 1/17 19444
What is wrong ?
You
Yes, I have the same motherboard / chipset. Thanks for your help!
Rodney M. Jokerst
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Nathan Thompson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0600, Rodney M. Jokerst wrote:
This action causes my screen to go blank in X and remain blank
unless I move the mouse or
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:40:51PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
[X] Output under 2.2.x is correct: '/25' for 32MB range. I have no idea
why X complains about region D600-D7FF - can you look at
'... regions behind bridge' when you boot 2.2.x (they are on 0:01.0
device, AFAIK) ? Under
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Like the ext2 labels? (man e2label)
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] This re-ordering of the scsi drives should be
done by SCSI ML , so is incorporating ext2 fs data structure knowledge
on the SCSI ML a good idea?.
You'd better not care what the drives ae called - it
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote:
Pierre Rousselet writes:
1) top (procps-2.0.7) gives me the messages :
'bad data in /proc/uptime'
'bad data in /proc/loadavg'
cat /proc/uptime
1435.30 904.74
cat /proc/loadavg
0.01 0.21 0.29 1/17 19444
What is wrong ?
Which 2.4.0-x kernel, and
Quick question: has anyone used the lance.c driver for a 100BaseT
network PCI device? If so, what successes/failures did you run into?
(I'm working with an Am79C973 chip.)
TIA,
Eli
. "To the systems programmer, users and applications
Eli Carter | serve only to
On 16 Jan 01 at 17:16, Chad Miller wrote:
(added [EMAIL PROTECTED], as he may be interested in one range behind bridge
overlapping both forwarding ranges...)
#00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8371 [KX133 AGP] (prog-if \
#00 [Normal decode])
# Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
If there is new dentry, which is at fpos postion, and it is child of
readdir-ed directory, we should return it anyway, no? There must not be
two ncpfs dentries with same d_parent and d_fsdata if d_fsdata != 0,
as each dentry can be in only one
On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Urban Widmark wrote:
eth1: Transmit timed out, status , PHY status ,
resetting...
[snip]
Keeps going nonstop until I ifdown eth1.
Card worked fine 2 days ago...
So what did you change?
Nothing.
Has the machine been up since then?
No. I rebooted
Hi again,
It looks like some progress is being made, *wonderful*, as to some earlier
questions...
I'll have a look tonight or so. It works for you on non-bigmem?
Yes. Absolutely no problems on non-bigmem.
smb_rename suggests mv, but the process is ls ... er? What commands where
} Quick question: has anyone used the lance.c driver for a 100BaseT
} network PCI device? If so, what successes/failures did you run into?
}
} (I'm working with an Am79C973 chip.)
I'd recommend the pcnet32.c driver for that chip, instead. I was running
it for a little over a year at 100Mbps
in part it is due to the major/minor split which only gives 4 bits for the
partition number.
if you use devfs or LVM this limit is removed.
David Lang
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:10:41 -0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy]
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] I think there should be a better way to handle
this , compiling is one of the options, but an end-user should not
think of compiling. The end user needs to put an another card and
connect drives and get his system up and running. He should not
Quick question: has anyone used the lance.c driver for a 100BaseT
network PCI device? If so, what successes/failures did you run into?
Never used lance.c for 100BaseT (can it do that?). I've used the pcnet32.c
driver, however.
(I'm working with an Am79C973 chip.)
In my case, Am79C971.
You seem to be full of things that "we" can implement. So I just have
to wonder: do you by any chance have some prototype code somewhere to
figure out, reliably, which SCSI cards have BIOS extensions enabled,
and the order they hook in?
[Venkat] It would be a very bad idea for the
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, richard.morgan9 wrote:
I have the same problem as Urban with a recent DLink 530tx
(rhine2). Pulling the power cable from my atx psu (while the
computer was "off") fixed the card, until my next reboot from
win98.
I'm not the one with a problem but maybe it has something
: Agreed -- the hard-coded Nagle algorithm makes no sense these days.
:
: The fact I dislike about the HP-UX implementation is that it is so
: _obviously_ stupid.
:
: And I have to say that I absolutely despise the BSD people. They did
: sendfile() after both Linux and HP-UX had done it,
2.0.37+ kernels crash even before I can see the "Uncompressing linux..."
message. I use the same configuration for 2.0.36 and 2.0.37 (basically
it's the default configuration without anything interesting changed), and
the latter just won't work. It also doesn't matter if I use zImage or
bzImage.
Thanks to all who pointed out the pcnet32.c driver! (And quickly, too.
Perhaps one day I'll learn to do a "grep -i 79C973 drivers/net/*"
first. *sigh*)
Now to see if I can get it to work on an ARM-based system...gotta
love lack of cache-coherance. ;) (dma_cache_inv, etc.) I'm open to
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Michael Meissner wrote:
you're forgetting that in /etc/lilo.conf there is a directive called
'append='... all the user has to do is merely add
'append="scsihosts=whatever,whatever"' into their config file and rerun
lilo. problem solved
That's assuming you are
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, dean gaudet wrote:
just for kicks i've implemented sendpath() support.
_syscall4 (int, sendpath, int, out_fd, char *, path, off_t *, off, size_t, size)
hey so how do you implement transmit timeouts with sendpath() ?
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Stefan Ring wrote:
2.0.37+ kernels crash even before I can see the "Uncompressing linux..."
message. I use the same configuration for 2.0.36 and 2.0.37 (basically
it's the default configuration without anything interesting changed), and
the latter just won't work. It
Can someone tell me what happened to the merge_segments() function in
mm/mmap.c? I was using it in my Wine accelerator module, but it's no longer
present.
Cheers,
David
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[Michael Rothwell]
It seems that if you move a file with a colon -- "file:colon" -- in
the name from Ext2 to "StreamFS," you would end up with a file named
"file" with a stream named "colon". When copying back, you would get
"file:colon" back.
What if you copy both 'filename' and
D'oh, looks like if power management is disabled, pmdev is NULL (I get
that message when I load the module), but we try to derefence it anyways.
The fix is obvious:
duh, yeah, I'll send out a proper patch that handles the pm_register
failure too.
thanks.
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:55:58PM +0100, Andr? Dahlqvist wrote:
I was very surprised when I checked my local kernel.org mirror this
morning, and noticed that the latest 2.4.1 pre-patch had grown to
~180 kb in size. I was even more surprised when I realized that the
inclusion of reiserfs was
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:55:58PM +0100, Andr? Dahlqvist wrote:
I was very surprised when I checked my local kernel.org mirror this
morning, and noticed that the latest 2.4.1 pre-patch had grown to
~180 kb in size. I was even more surprised when
What is the format of /proc/PID/stat for 2.2.x?
In particular I'm interested in knowing start time of a process.
Thanks
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Which compiler will compile the 2.4.1-preX series? Since 2.4.0, my
GCC 2.95.2 patched with PGCC 2.95.3 (which creates pgcc-2.95.2) refuses
to compile any versions after this. Which is the next stable and binary
compatable compiler?
Anyone have any suggestions? I dont wish to use the development
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
A Linux-USB user (pem@ = Petr) reported that USB (OHCI) wasn't
working on his Intel STL2 system. This system uses a ServerWorks
chipset, hence the OHCI part.
Does it work with "noapic"?
What if you copy both 'filename' and 'filename:ext' onto the same fs?
Do they get combined into one file?
ON Ext2, you get two files. On NTFS, you get one file, and a stream on that
file.
Any semantics by which 'filename:stream' and 'filename' refer to the
same file would be b0rken. If
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Urban Widmark wrote:
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:59:33 +0100 (CET)
From: Urban Widmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: richard.morgan9 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Mike A. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Linux Kernel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
[Peter Samuelson]
What if you copy both 'filename' and 'filename:ext' onto the same
fs? Do they get combined into one file?
[Michael Rothwell]
ON Ext2, you get two files. On NTFS, you get one file, and a stream
on that file.
Yeah. I think that's broken. It gets worse when you start
[Michael Meissner]
Ummm, I just reread the 2.4 Changes file once again just to be sure,
and it did not cover this issue. So how the *$@% are people supposed
to "read some docs" to know about this, if the docs don't mention the
information. I know people have been complaining about this
Fair enough, but something in bugs.h changed from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1-preX and
broke my GCC, I shall recompile GCC with no PGCC patches however if this
happens still then there's a problem somewhere.
I dont know what FXSR is but there was no problem in 2.4.0 with this.
diff include/asm-i386/bugs.h
I get the following errors trying to build 2.4.0-ac9 just now.
I'll send you my .config upon request, or post it on my website
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/mike/Kernel/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
-fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=i686-c -o shmem.o
shmem.c
Message from syslogd@zeus at Tue Jan 16 00:17:29 2001 ...
zeus kernel: 00 to4 0 0 0 0011001.
Message from syslogd@zeus at Tue Jan 16 00:26:38 2001 ...
zeus kernel: 0:0: 0:0:0: 0: 0:0: 0:0: 0:0: 0:0:0: 0:0:0: 0:0: 0:0: 0
ind.
Message from syslogd@zeus at
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Rodney M. Jokerst wrote:
Yes, I have the same motherboard / chipset. Thanks for your help!
Rodney M. Jokerst
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Nathan Thompson wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:11:01PM -0600, Rodney M. Jokerst wrote:
This action causes my screen to go blank
My apologies I see this was already encountered and a patch submitted.
2.4.0-pre8 builds OK for me.
Mike
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Stefan Ring wrote:
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 00:35:39 +0100 (MET)
From: Stefan Ring [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Subject: 2.0.37 crashes immediately
2.0.37+ kernels crash even before I can see the "Uncompressing linux..."
On January 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0003
c01ccf91
*pde =
Oops: 0002
CPU:0
EIP:0010:[c01ccf91]
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010086
eax: ebx: c1490400
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote:
But even user-space code could use 'native files', via the following, safe
mechanizm:
so here's an alternative to ingo's proposal which i think solves some of
the other objections raised. it's something i've proposed in the past
under the name
On 9 Jan 2001, Zlatko Calusic wrote:
Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now if 2.4 has worse _performance_ than 2.2 due to one
reason or another, that I'd like to hear about ;)
Oh, well, it seems that I was wrong. :)
First test: hogmem 180 5 = allocate 180MB and dirty it 5 times
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
PF_RSSTRIM is not declared anywhere either in the linux-2.4.0
sources or in the 2.4.0-vmbigpatch.
Humm, I seem to have forgotten a `cp $i $i.orig` ;)
Should be fixed in a newer patch.
regards,
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Hi,
Where do you do this? And how do you handle the case of aliases with kseg,
the giant kernel mapping.
Aliases between user and kernel mappings of a page are handled by
flush_page_to_ram the old interface) or {copy,clear}_user_page,
flush_dcache_page and update_mmu_cache (new interface).
Did you find any software that breaks due to the additional restriction
on the virtual addresses of mappings?
Not yet. A good test of shared mmap coherency is a recent samba
(2.2 and above) that uses tdb. Tdb relies on shared mmaps heavily and
uncovered the bug when running on a dual
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, David Ford wrote:
Rik van Riel wrote:
On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, John O'Donnell wrote:
Only on my company's e-mail server. My company typically gets "zero"
emails from outside the US. If I get a piece of spam (sorry they are
typically from outside the US), I just
Hello Linux VM God :)
I think I started seeing this about 2.4.0-ac6...when I shutdown my
machine, I see tons of 'VM: Undead swap entry ###', where ### is
some memory address. I can also reproduce this 100% by (for
example) going into X, loading a lot of crap so that my 112mb ram is full
www ftp.namesys.com seem to be down (or at least I get "no route to host) so I
can't go look there.
I get the impression that with previous patches utilities like "mkreiserfs" were
in
linux/fs/reiserfs/utils, but now that ReiserFS is in the main kernel tree the
utilities aren't there.
I've
Why is this a SCSI ML problem? The problem is that the OS can't figure
out
where to mount root from. Sounds like an OS problem.
I think the file system label is the leading candidate to solve this. One
really does not care if the root disk is called /dev/sda or /dev/fred.
All
one
Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
When the cards are of different make the order is solely dependent on
the order that the drivers are initialized in the kernel. If you have
modules enabled, only build the driver for your root device into the
kernel image and have the other modular. This
Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
Hi,
I have one issue which requires fix from the linux kernel.
Initially i put a SCSI controller and install the OS on the drive connected
to it. After installing the OS (on sda), the customer puts another SCSI
controller. The BIOS for the first controller has
Trond Myklebust wrote:
I'll bet it's the lseek that's screwing things up again. IIRC IRIX has
an export option to cause it to generate 32-bit readdir cookies. Could
you please try enabling it?
Sorry, I forgot to mention this: This option was already enabled.
Mogens
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am afraid I have missed most earlier messages in this thread.
However, let me remark that the problem of assigning a
file descriptor is the one that is usually described by
"priority queue". The version of Peter van Emde Boas
Ton Hospel writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am afraid I have missed most earlier messages in this thread.
However, let me remark that the problem of assigning a
file descriptor is the one that is usually described by
"priority queue". The
#include hallo.h
I got a "Tyan Thunder HE-SL"-Mainboard today, which has a "Severworks
ServerSet III HE"-Chipset. (2xPIII 933, 2x512MB PC133 ECC-Registered
SDRAM)
And i have one problem and one question.
First the question. I have an uptime of phenomenal 29minutes and "cat
/proc/interrupts"
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Steve VanDevender [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ton Hospel writes:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am afraid I have missed most earlier messages in this thread.
However, let me remark that the problem of assigning a
"NB" == Neil Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
NB On January 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NB Or in short "this cannot happen" :-)
NB Is there any chance of a memory error?
NB Has this happened more than once?
I have to confess that I was not running with the stock
2.4.1-pre7
Some time ago a intel i810 framebuffer driver was written. It only worked
for 2.2.X. With 2.4.X a spinlock is used in the upper layers of the
console system. Sooner or later we are going to run into the situtation
where we will have graphics hardware which has no vga core and wih be
purely
On Tue, 9 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
BTW, I noticed what is left in blk-13B seems to be my work
Yeah yeah, we'll buy you beer at the next conference... ;)
Rik
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several new operations have been added to super_operations, presumably
as part of the reiserfs merge. write_super_lockfs and unlockfs are
never called. can we remove them?
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Mattew Wilcox writes:
several new operations have been added to super_operations, presumably
as part of the reiserfs merge. write_super_lockfs and unlockfs are
never called. can we remove them?
These operations were added to co-ordinate filesystem backups/snapshots
for journalling
On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:
You want to make things SOOO easy for a 'dummy' user, and that user will never
use them. The average user you are targetting says: 'daddy, buy me a PC to
run Quake and do my school jobs' or 'please, dear vendor, I want a PC to
do my
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:01:12PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
This is due to the fixed ordering of the scsi drivers. You can change the
order of the scsi hosts with the "scsihosts" kernel parameter. See
linux/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
This is due to the fixed ordering of the scsi drivers. You can change the
order of the scsi hosts with the "scsihosts" kernel parameter. See
linux/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] I think it would be a nice idea if we can
Of course that would be better. The only complaint I have with such a
system is that of backwards compatibility...as long as the legacy device
names are still supported i would have no problem with it at all.
however, this brings up an interesting question: what happens if two disks
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
we need some kind of signature being written in the drive, which the kernel
will use for determining the boot drive and later re-order drives, if
required.
Is someone handling this already?
"mount by uuid"?
Amiga's Rigid Disk Block?
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It should be possible to read the BIOS setting for this option and
behave accordingly. Please give full details of how to read and interpret
the information stored in the CMOS for all versions of AMI BIOS, and I'll
take a look at this.
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] When i meant BIOS setting
Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
It should be possible to read the BIOS setting for this option and
behave accordingly. Please give full details of how to read and interpret
the information stored in the CMOS for all versions of AMI BIOS, and I'll
take a look at this.
[Venkatesh
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On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 12:32:05AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote:
If that is your idea of the average user... You're a system administrator,
you can have tons of scsi cards in your system if you want.
You want to make things SOOO easy for a 'dummy' user, and that user will never
use them.
Hi,
I have one issue which requires fix from the linux kernel.
Initially i put a SCSI controller and install the OS on the drive connected
to it. After installing the OS (on sda), the customer puts another SCSI
controller. The BIOS for the first controller has BIOS enabled and for the
second
In article 1355693A51C0D211B55A00105ACCFE64E9518C@ATL_MS1 you wrote:
we need some kind of signature being written in the drive, which the
kernel
will use for determining the boot drive and later re-order drives, if
required.
Like the ext2 labels? (man e2label)
[Venkatesh
When the cards are of different make the order is solely dependent on
the order that the drivers are initialized in the kernel. If you have
modules enabled, only build the driver for your root device into the
kernel image and have the other modular. This lets you control the
initialization
Why does the end-user have to compile the kernel? Most distributions
provide a kernel with no SCSI drivers in it, but use an initrd to get
the root SCSI driver in (man mkinitrd on any Redhat box). Just
distribute all SCSI drivers as modules and you won't have any problems.
That is not
Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
Hi,
I have one issue which requires fix from the linux kernel.
Initially i put a SCSI controller and install the OS on the drive connected
to it. After installing the OS (on sda), the customer puts another SCSI
controller. The BIOS for the first controller has
you're forgetting that in /etc/lilo.conf there is a directive called
'append='... all the user has to do is merely add
'append="scsihosts=whatever,whatever"' into their config file and rerun
lilo. problem solved
besides, how many 'end-users' do you know of that will have multiple scsi
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[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] If we can truly go for label based mouting
and lilo'ing this would solve the problem. Anybody doing this?
Red hat Linux 7.0.
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Configuration, networking,
Is someone handling this already?
"mount by uuid"?
Amiga's Rigid Disk Block?
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] Something like this is better. The problem
is where do we store this info. Last sector is one of the options. Does
anyone know where NT stores this info?
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This is due to the fixed ordering of the scsi drivers. You can change the
order of the scsi hosts with the "scsihosts" kernel parameter. See
linux/drivers/scsi/scsi.c
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] I think it would be a nice idea if we can
make this process automatic , with out user typing in
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we need some kind of signature being written in the drive, which the
kernel will use for determining the boot drive and later re-order
drives, if required.
Is someone handling this already?
It should be possible to read the BIOS setting for this option and
behave
Why is this a SCSI ML problem? The problem is that the OS can't figure out
where to mount root from. Sounds like an OS problem.
I think the file system label is the leading candidate to solve this. One
really does not care if the root disk is called /dev/sda or /dev/fred. All
one cares
The scsi host numbers will be allocated to the HBAs in
the order shown starting at 0. This method does not
distinguish between the two advansys controllers, luckily
swapping their positions on the PCI bus does.
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] Just think an end-user fuguring out this
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
[Venkatesh Ramamurthy] Dont you think that mounting and booting
based on disk label names is better, then relying on device nodes which can
change when a new card is added?. The existing patch for 2.2.xx is quite
small and it does not
On 2001.01.16 Michael Meissner wrote:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:01:12PM -0800, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Venkatesh Ramamurthy wrote:
..
besides, how many 'end-users' do you know of that will have multiple scsi
adapters in one system? how many end-users -period- will
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