long-term 7600-booting patch
Hi,
I've reported this problem many times to linuxppc support, Paul
Mackerras and some others.
Since may 1999, my kernel won't boot UNTIL I applied a patch I have
available to anyone who wish.
The problem (well known) is with the first (internal) SCSI not syncing
at boot time.
As my 2.1.125 kernel from linuxppc R4 was always fine but I need to
boot new kernels, I've made this patch. Not that I understand a lot of what i've done, mainly backporting the mesh code from 2.1.125.
At least, my mac now always BOOT. Before applying this patch, I had to
try between 6 and 16 times to boot my computer. You DON'T know how tiring this is
Thomas
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I've reported this problem many times to linuxppc support, Paul
Mackerras and some others.Since may 1999, my kernel won't boot UNTIL I applied a patch I have
available to anyone who wish.The problem (well known) is with the first (internal) SCSI not syncing
at boot time.
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As my 2.1.125 kernel from linuxppc R4 was always fine but I need to
boot new kernels, I've made this patch. Not that I understand a lot of what i've done, mainly backporting the mesh code from 2.1.125.At least, my mac now always BOOT. Before applying this patch, I had to
try between 6 and 16 times to boot my computer. You DON'T know how tiring this is
Can you please try a 2.3.x kernel? I suffered from a similar problem and it was solved in 2.3.x.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
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Geert Uytterhoeven -- Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} -- [email protected]
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Can you please try a 2.3.x kernel? I suffered from a similar problem and it was solved in 2.3.x.
I'm having a close look at 2.3. Recently (2.3.21 I guess), one very
small part of my patch wasn't needed anymore because it was part of it.
It does work very well with latest 2.3.x + my patch. I haven't tried
whithout it, though.
I'll try and tell you soon.(tomorrow probably)
sincerely,
Thomas
ps : I'm on the linuxppc-dev list
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