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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 ---
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.
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 ***