Bug 386 – Installation failure with Adaptec AIC 7880 UW SCSI chips

Bug 386 - Installation failure with Adaptec AIC 7880 UW SCSI chips

Summary:	Installation failure with Adaptec AIC 7880 UW SCSI chips

Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 87

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	kernel (Show other bugs)
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Version:	5.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	1998-12-11 08:11 EST by danny.heijl
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1998-12-14 14:43:54 EST
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Description danny.heijl 1998-12-11 08:11:25 EST

It is impossible to boot the 2.0.36 kernel from an Adaptec
AIC 7880 on-board UW SCSI chip.
This has prevented the installation of RH 5.2 on what was to
be my company's first official Linux server.
The bug is clearly in aicxxxx.o.

I have installed RH 5.0 with all errata including kernel
2.0.35 without any problem on this machine.
I installed the 2.0.36 kernel source and built a new kernel:
it won't boot. Same problem as when installing RH 5.2 :
command aborted due to time-out, SCSI bus resets, etc...

The newsgroups are overflowing with complaints about this,
but I have not seen an official RH response.

Can I make a boot diskette with a 2.0.35 kernel to
install/upgrade RH 5.2 ?

I have now manually installed/upgraded all RH 5.2 RPMS on
top of RH 5.0 and now the machine runs RH 5.2 with a 2.0.35
kernel, but it was rather tedious.

Danny Heijl.

Danny.Heijl@cevi.be
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Comment 1 danny.heijl 1998-12-14 12:20:59 EST

I can make the 2.0.36 kernel boot by applying the aicxxx 5.1.2 to
5.1.3 and 5.1.3 to 5.1.4 patches (from your pub/aic directory) and
building and installing a new kernel.

The RH 5.2 CD/boot floppy install problem remains of course.

Comment 2 David Lawrence 1998-12-14 14:43:59 EST

This problem is known and we hope to have errata boot disks available
soon to address this problem.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87 ***

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