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Re: Adaptec 2940 and aic7xxx
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael K. Johnson)
Mon Oct 21 18:21:33 1996
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From: "Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 21 Oct 1996 09:39:31 MDT."
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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 16:44:20 -0400
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Todd Weible writes:
>Note to Red Hat team...if you haven't already, you should get a kernel
>image on your site for people with 3940W at least. Some users reported
>2940 is ok with standard boot disk, but I know 3940 isn't.
We didn't realize that this problem had cropped up with aic7xxx-based
products; the module clearly works on some systems, but not others.
I've built a new boot disk, available from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/johnsonm/bootaic7xxx.img.gz
Assuming it works, after doing the install (and setting up LILO, etc),
boot *from the floppy* with "linux root=/dev/sd??" where "sd??" is the
root partition on the hard drive. Then mount the floppy and copy
the vmlinuz off it into your /boot directory and re-run lilo. At
that point, you should have a working system.
Please let me know if this works, and if it doesn't, please tell me
about any error messages you see. I've sent preliminary notes to the
linux-kernel mailing list about this issue, and the more information
I can give them, the better. Error messages and system configuration
are probably the most important things at this point. Things like
how much memory you have, what other hardware, etc., may turn out to
be important.
Thanks,
michaelkjohnson
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