Re: [suse-axp] 2 Problems with the kernel

From: Stefan Reinauer (stepan@suse.de)
Date: Mon Sep 06 1999 - 01:14:28 PDT

  • Next message: Martin Kahlert: "Re: [suse-axp] 2 Problems with the kernel"

    Date: 6 Sep 1999 10:14:28 +0200
    Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.9909061003410.12141-100000@Wotan.suse.de>
    From: "Stefan Reinauer" <stepan@suse.de>
    Subject: Re: [suse-axp] 2 Problems with the kernel
    

    On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Martin Kahlert wrote:

    > Hi,
    > yesterday i installed SuSE-6.1-AXP on my Ruffian board.
    > Nearly everything went fine, but i have 2 problems:
    >
    > I wanted to upgrade from the 2.2.9-Suse kernel to the recent
    > 2.2.12 (which is a bit friendlier to Solaris 2.7....)
    > But it couldn't boot. I compiled with the NCR53C7/8xx driver
    > 2.2.9 recognizes my NCR53C875 onboard controller any problems)
    > but with 2.2.12 i get a SCSI: 0 hosts message at boot time,
    > which produces a slight problem when mounting my root partition later on.

    Try thy SYM53C8xx driver. This is the new driver for "newer"
    NCR/Symbios SCSI chipsets (>=825 I think) They have been split to be able
    to specialize on the newer chips' features.

    > i have a iomega zip drive (the older 100MB version plugged into the
    > parallel port). I used to do modprobe ppa
    > and mount /dev/sdb1 /zip with my 2.0.38 kernel. The modprobe
    > command seems to work (in the logfile it tells me, it found the drive)
    > but the mount command says /dev/sdb1 is not a valid block device
    > or something like that. fdisk -l /dev/sdb doesn't work either.

    What does it tell? Are you sure there is a partition table on the zip
    medium? Does a dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null "work" ?

    > Has anything changed since my 2.0.* days in the naming of the
    > parport devices? (i tried fdisk -l /dev/sd[b-z], too).

    Ah.. you might have to explicitly load the "parport" and "parport_pc"
    modules before (Or tell modprobe/kmod to load it automatically when
    loading the ppa driver)

    > esa$ gcc -Wall -o ariane5 ariane5.c
    > ariane5.c: 666: warning: long float implicitly truncated to unsigned type
    > esa$ ariane5

    *grin*

    Regards,
     Stefan Reinauer

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