From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:31:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:31:23 -0400 Received: from pc1-cwma1-5-cust51.swa.cable.ntl.com ([80.5.120.51]:58360 "EHLO irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 09:31:22 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH: scsi device queue depth adjustability patch From: Alan Cox To: Doug Ledford Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20021002014144.GA29093@redhat.com> References: <20021002002854.GF28265@redhat.com> <1033521367.20103.57.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20021002014144.GA29093@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 (1.0.8-10) Date: 02 Oct 2002 14:44:25 +0100 Message-Id: <1033566265.23682.18.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 02:41, Doug Ledford wrote: > I didn't provide a lot of details before because this machine doesn't have > a serial console host to grab logs and I didn't write all the stuff down. > Then there is the additional fubar stuff but it's mainly in the category > of "Red Hat Linux 8.0 made initrd images using nash as the shell blow > chunks in regards to actually working with the 2.5.40 kernel, failing > simple operations such as mounting /proc, which of course causes damn near > everything else it tries to do to fail since the normal /proc files aren't > available". Ok first thing to try - does 2.4.20-pre8-ac3 also lock up. That will seperate problems with the 2.5.40 kernel from IDE ones. In paticular I notice you mention using initrd which doesnt seem to work in 2.5.40