From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jose Rodriguez Ruibal" Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 16:29:34 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Problem booting SuSE SLES 8 beta (kernel 2.4.9) on Itanium Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Hi, I'm using the LSI chipset, and the driver works fine. I can configure my disks and work with mirroring. Cheers, Jose grundler@cup.hp.c om (Grant To: Jose Rodriguez Ruibal/France/IBM@IBMFR Grundler) cc: linux-ia64@linuxia64.org Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Problem booting SuSE SLES 8 beta (kernel 2.4.9) on Itanium 2 16-01-03 02:26 box On Thu, Jan 16, 2003 at 01:37:57AM +0100, Jose Rodriguez Ruibal wrote: > The problem is that when I try to boot once installed, the boot > process stops while loading the mptable module. mptable? > Loading initrd \initrd...done > Linux version 2.4.19 (root@ITANIUM2.suse.de) (gcc version 3.2) #1 Thu Dec > 12 19:33:22 UTC 2002 ... > RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 > Freeing initrd memory: 1088kB freed > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > Loading module mptbase ... looks like it's trying to load LSI mpt/fusion driver from the ramdisk. gsyprf3:/usr/src/2.4.20# find -name mptbase\* ./drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c ./drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.h ./drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.o ./include/linux/modules/mptbase.stamp ./include/linux/modules/mptbase.ver Do you have an LSI FC or u320 controller installed or built-in? Did the LSI EFI driver get loaded? hth, grant