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i used the driver from promise to install
redhat
i noticed that redhat install did not load ft.o so
the install was doomed to fail (the same problem i think as mentioned in
"onboard fasttrak RAID controller")
i load it my self by leaving the install with
ctrl-alt-F2 and modprobe ft.o
alt-F7 back and continuing the install
after installing it won't boot again so i'm forced
to use the linux rescue mode and do the same as above
and more
CTRL-ALT-F2 again
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
modprobe /mnt/floppy/ft.o
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda6 /mnt/sys
chroot /mnt/sys
(Don't forget to use this option on boot : linux
ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14 ide1=0x170,0x376,15 ide2=0 ide3=0 ....... ide9=0 rescue (or
expert) on PDC20262 or PDC20265 else ft.o wil not work correctly)
and then i installed the new sources for linux
kernel 2.4.9 and patched it with patch-2.4.9-ac12
after compiling several times it is still not
working
but tried almost every option in the kernel but i
keep getting kernel oopses and virtual page blah and then it hangs
(and every time i have to do the above ritual pffff
:=( takes a long time pffff)
anybody know what is the problem?
I see an error when it is compiling promise support
(something about dma)
but the oopses and virtueal mapping blah errors
appear at random time it seems
so if i boot the system a couple of times over
again
it sometimes paniced before e2fsck /dev/sda6 and
sometimes after the filesystem check ( it even has finished the filecheck wauw
:=)
and where can i find the logs (of the oopses and
kernel panics) so i can send it to this mailing list
Erik
my configuration
amd athlon
msi k7T turbo
promise raid 2 x 45 Gb HD
installed windows on partition 1
partition 6 linux
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