Re: udma66 controller changed devices

[Rich Payne <rdp talisman alphalinux org>]

Hmmmmm.....interesting. Is this the kernel from API or is this your own? I
was just looking at the CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD kernel option, and that
does exactly what you describe, though I'm pretty sure I didn't compile
the API kernel with that enabled (you can look at the config file on the
install floppy for this).

--rdp

On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Robert Williams wrote:

> I inserted a HPT366 UDMA controller into my UP1000
> with no disks attached and the system
> could not boot to completion.
> The boot loader (apb) found and loaded up1000.pal
> and vmlinux.gz on /dev/hda1, but then the system appears to
> have switched the ide devices.
> The onboard ide devices 0 and 1 became 2 and 3,
> (the names of my disks became hde, hdf, and hdg).
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_OFFBOARD was not set.
> Where normally I would boot to root on /dev/hda5,
> the system was trying to mount /dev/hde5.
> 
> This looks like buggy behavior.
> Does anyone here know what the problem might be?
> 
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