On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 14:37 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Gilboa Davara writes: > > > On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 13:21 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Gilboa Davara writes: > >> > >> > I'm having the same problem. > >> > My SCSI based Dual Opteron machine (x86-64) fails to boot with 1644. > >> > Somehow, the adatec79xx driver init fails, leaving me without the root > >> > >> This must be the third or the fourth time in recent memory that aic7xxx > >> broke in the SMP kernel. You need to post the details in bugzilla, so this > >> can get fixed. > >> > > > > I'm not sure yet that this is indeed an aic7xxx problem. > > I'll modify the initrd file, inserting a couple of 'sleep 10s' to see > > what breaks. > > It would be more useful if you capture the boot messages. > > No go. I'm modified my initrd image in-order to give me some time to see what's wrong. The Adaptec seems to load just fine (I see no errors) but post-load, when the driver starts scanning the SCSI bus (in working kernels), I see nothing. It seems that the drive fails to detect my Adaptec 29160 card. Gilboa
