aic7xx system hangs

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Tue Sep 14 13:56:43 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 09:27, Jeremy Conlin wrote:
> > When you booted rescue mode, it would have asked you if you wanted to
> > search for an installed copy of FC2. Your message suggests it found 
> > your
> > install, and you should give the chroot command as it suggests:
> >
> > chroot /mnt/sysimage
> >
> > That gives you easy access to the files you will need. Sorry I forgot
> > about this piece, so with the chroot, you will be able to use paths as
> > if you had booted your system normally.
> >
> I did what you said and (after doing it twice to correct a typo:) ) it 
> was working!  I was very excited to see the machine get past the 
> Loading aic7xxx.ko module and begin to load the OS.  Unfortunately 
> another problem has cropped up.  I get the following message:
> 
> Checking for new hardwaremodprobe:  FATAL:  Error inserting aic7xxx 
> (/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358smp/kernel/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx.ko):  No such 
> device
> 
> kernel panic:  aic7xxx  unrecoverable  BRKADRINT
> 
> 
> I don't understand why it requires the device to be loaded initially 
> but now it can't even find the device.  Is there another step that 
> needs to be done to include the appropriate driver in the kernel?
> 
> Thanks again for your help.
> Jeremy
Back when (a long time ago and a 2.4 series kernal) I had this form of
problem which turned out to be a DMA or interrupt issue, I really don't
remember.

I would check this also.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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