Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2003 12:45:51 -0800 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] rewritten page coloring for 2.4.20 kernel |
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At 11:34 AM 1/5/03 -0800, you wrote: >> What kind of Alpha? Got an oops/backtrace? >> I probably can't reproduce it directly since my Alpha's diskless.
On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 03:04:05PM -0500, Jason Papadopoulos wrote: > The machine in question is a DS10 Alphaserver (DP264 type chipset) using an > ALI M5229 rev c1 IDE controller (uses the ALI 15x3 driver). The stock 2.5.53 > kernel panics at boot time because it can't find the root partition; when I > first reported the problem, one of the maintainers passed on a patch that > resolved some 2.5 IDE issues. With the patch in place, the boot process gets > farther along but occaisionally there will be a printout that hda lost an > interrupt. I don't know how far it really gets, because I gave up after other > subsystems started reporting errors. > I haven't tried 2.5.54, either. I will shortly. > Is 2.4 really in bug-fix mode now? 2.4.19 and 2.4.20 were huge patches.
Sounds like a job for the IDE crew, who appear to know there are pending ali + Alpha issues.
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