From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265968AbUAEXMc (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:12:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266003AbUAEXLH (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:11:07 -0500 Received: from debian4.unizh.ch ([130.60.73.144]:23728 "EHLO albatross.madduck.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265994AbUAEXIs (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jan 2004 18:08:48 -0500 Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 00:08:41 +0100 From: martin f krafft To: linux kernel mailing list Subject: problem booting aic7xxx-old with reiserfs Message-ID: <20040105230841.GA12917@piper.madduck.net> Mail-Followup-To: martin f krafft , linux kernel mailing list Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE" Content-Disposition: inline X-OS: Debian GNU/Linux testing/unstable kernel 2.6.0-piper i686 X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.4i (2003-03-19) X-Motto: Keep the good times rollin' X-Subliminal-Message: debian/rules! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [please CC me on replies!] Hi all, I just tried to migrate my 200million year old router/firewall machine to 2.6.0 without much success. The machine is a K6/200 with an Adaptec 2940 controlling a Quantum Fireball drive, with an ext3 /boot partition. The whole thing is connected to the external network with a 3c509 and the internal network with a RTL8139. The machine works just fine with kernel 2.4.23, grsecurity and freeswan. The configuration is here: [1]. I configured the 2.6.0 kernel [2] with the old aic7xxx driver, as well as the 3c59x and 8139too drivers. Now, when I start the system, it loads the kernel just fine, the SCSI driver recognises the harddrive, but when it tries to mount / (reiserfs) (right after initialising TCP, GRE, IPsec, IPv6 and SCTP), it just hangs with the following message: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal This will stay for a couple of minutes, when the system finally proceeds, coming to another hang after it told me that init is booting. I haven't gotten further than that yet. I imaging this is a problem with the SCSI driver, but there are no errors logged, and in 2.4.23 it works just fine. What is also curious is that after booting 2.6.0, if I don't physically shut off and then restart the system, 2.4.23 can't seem to communicate via eth0 (3c59x) anymore. It gives messages of the following form: eth0: command 0x3002 did not complete! status=3D0xffff and can't even obtain an IP address from the DHCP server. Only physically powering off the system and starting it from zero will fix this problem, allowing 2.4.23 to boot as normal. I wonder if the two are related, but I don't think so. If I can boot 2.6.0, I couldn't care less about the 3c59x card, which is apparently being configured by 2.6.0 in such a way that 2.4.23 can't handle it. Thus, I would be eternally grateful for hints as to why 2.6.0 causes my system to hang. Thanks! [please CC me on replies!] 1. ftp://ftp.madduck.net/scratch/config-2.4.23-wall.gz [5.5 Kb] 2. ftp://ftp.madduck.net/scratch/config-2.6.0-wall.gz [4.5 Kb] --=20 martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:" net@madduck =20 invalid/expired pgp subkeys? use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver! =20 "in a country where the sole employer is the state, opposition means death by slow starvation. the old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat." -- leon trotsky, 1937 --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/+e55IgvIgzMMSnURAgTYAKDE/WoYRHbZV7t6pto4Ty16fxIpAgCglaiA fj9vPpvj+p7/AUlFezmentw= =1kfy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--