From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Atro.Tossavainen@Helsinki.FI
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.4.21-ben2 does not boot on Rev 1 Xserve
Date: 07 Jul 2003 14:40:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1057581605.11707.15.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307071146.h67BkHj02191@kruuna.Helsinki.FI>
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 13:46, Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I tried to upgrade the kernel on our Xserve to 2.4.21-ben2 which I just
> downloaded from source.mvista.com with rsync.
>
> The bootup messages scroll by quite quickly, but if I'm not mistaken,
> the IDE driver announced the following:
>
> PDC20270: neither IDE port enabled (BIOS)
>
> and fails to boot because it can't see the disks.
Did you enable CONFIG_PDC202XX_FORCE ? (Also called
"Special FastTrack Feature"). This option is needed for the Promise
controller on the Xserve motherboard.
Ben.
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2003-07-07 11:46 Kernel 2.4.21-ben2 does not boot on Rev 1 Xserve Atro Tossavainen
2003-07-07 12:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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