At 10:09 23-11-2001 +0100, Matthijs van der Klip wrote:
Hi,
Several months ago I had trouble getting Release 1.0.1 to work on an SGI
1200 machine. I found several references to broken firmware of the Intel
440GX motherboard and a fix telling me to boot the kernel with the
parameter 'apic'.
Now this trick doesn't seem to work with release 1.0.2a. I get lots of
scsi timeouts and can't get it to boot properly on an 1200. Does anyone
have any ideas? Is the 'apic' parameter uninplemented in this new kernel?
Am I convicted to use an older kernel?
Does the system boot properly without the apic option? A lot has happend
between the 1.0.1 (2.4.3 kernel) and 1.0.2 (2.4.9 kernel). It might just
work now or have a workaround implemented.
The scsi timeouts might also be related to the new style aic7xxx driver.
Maybe someone from SGI which has experience with those machines can comment
on this.
Cheers/Groetjes
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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