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Re: 5.1 reboot problem / scsi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chuck Mead)
Fri Oct 16 10:16:18 1998
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:09:56 -0400 (EWT)
From: Chuck Mead <chuck@moongroup.com>
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On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, William W. Austin wrote:
> > Kernel Panic: aic7xxx: AWAITING_MSG for an SCB that does not have a waiting
> message
> >
> > In swapper task - not syncing
>
> At this point the boot fails of course, and the system sits there dead in the
> water.
>
> I have been running the 2.0.35-2 kernel since (approx.) July 25th with no
> changes. I did a regen of the kernel to (a) remove sound devices and (b) add
> support for a multi=port digiboard (pci/xem); however, this has been running
> smoothely for months.
>
> I also did a verify of the kernel, the boot info, etc. against 2 known good
> backup tapes and they are byte-for-byte identical.
<snip>
> So I am currently stumped on this one. Has anyone seen this behavior and if
> so are there any suggestions on it (I have scanned the last 100 or so digests
> and have not found anything related to this so far)?
>
I'd address this one over on the Linux kernel list!
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