Managed to get a fresh RH 7.1 system (based on the binary @$#%! from Highpoint) to compile a 2.4.10 kernel with the ataraid patche. Specs are: 1 x Abit KT7A-RAID 1 x 1.33Ghz Athlon CPU 3 x 256Mb 150Mhz SDRAM 2 x 45Gb IBM-DTLA-307045 (configured as RAID-0) 1 x GeForce 2 Ultra 1 x ne2k-pci 1 x Creative SBLive 5.1 Made an initrd that included & insmod'ed ide-disk.o, ataraid.o & hptraid.o. Lilo the new kernel, reboot, looking good...ata initialization messages appearing..."Welcome to Red Hat..."...aaaaahhh: kernel panic!!! Reboot, this time stops dead in its tracks in middle of boot... Reboot, this time kernel panic again.... Reboot, reboot, reboot - each time make it to a different point in boot process and either stops dead in its tracks or gives a kernel panic dump. Question is, how do I give you more information to assist in diagnosis? I imagine the only way to save the kernel boot messages is via a serial connection...I have other boxes available for logging, a pointer to a HOWTO on debugging kernel startup would be great (ok, I will look for it also)... Thanks for your efforts in producing an open driver for this hardware. I was most disappointed to learn that Highpoint had released binary-only kits. Hopefully I can offer my platform as an test bed for your continued development! -- Dardo D. Kleiner Connection Machine Facility, Center for Computational Sciences Naval Research Laboratory (Washington, DC) dkleiner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 202.404.7019
