Kernel 2.4.21-ben2 does not boot on Rev 1 Xserve

Kernel 2.4.21-ben2 does not boot on Rev 1 Xserve

[Atro Tossavainen]

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.

The computer works fine with 2.4.20-ben1, which I seem to have installed
on February 18 this year.

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Re: Kernel 2.4.21-ben2 does not boot on Rev 1 Xserve

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

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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