Re: Adaptec 2010s boot failure

        Hello Vlad ,  I'm sorry to hear that you had problems .

        The key problem with the driver in most distro's ,  it appears to
        be that the driver has been compliled with the in kernel i2o & if
        the driver is compiled with that it either locks or oop's .  From
        adaptec's linux site they make particular point to NOT compile it
        against in kernel version of i2o .

        The way I was able to install was like this .  The book that came
        with the 2010s has a description of doing something very simular
        to what I am descibing here .  But ...

        Insert a supported scsi card .  Install your distro on -one-
        drive ,  Make sure the kernel loaded has the dpt_i2o is compiled
        in AND that is has NOT been compiled with the Kernel version of
        i2o (ie: do not enable i2o) .
        Once you have that system booting properly .  Back it up .

        Now that is accomplished replace the scsi card with the 2010s and
        enter the SMOR ((*)iow just hit Crtl-A at the right time) .
        Create a raid1 (this is the ONLY functionality that works with
        this process) ,  have the raid1 mirror from the selected disk to
        another that can boot .  Verify that the setup is what is wanted .
        I beleive at this point that the controller mentions that the
        selections made will not take effect until after a reboot .
        Do so .  Then ee-enter SMOR(*) & have it rebuild the array .
        After that is accomplished . You should be able to boot into the
        system .  Hth ,  JimL

On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Vlad Milovanovic wrote:

> Hi Nick,
>
> I had that same card, and it gave me countless problems and headaches.
> One thing that I can remember for sure, is that I *never* managed to
> get anything to boot of any disk that was connected to the card. I
> don't know if I was doing somethingh wrong, but given the amount of
> times I have done this sort of thing it is unlikely.
>
> Also I remember having to pass the IRQ and the I/O of the card to the
> module with insmod, but it sounds like you have done that since you
> are installing fine.
>
> Therefore it is my guess that this is not a bootable card. May I
> suggest a small IDE disk for the /boot ?
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, 12 Mar 2003 19:21:06 -0500 Nick DeClario
> (nick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>
> >Hi.  I have an Adaptec 2010s running on an Intel SE7501WV2
> motherboard.
> >   I can get both EnGarde Linux and RedHat Linux 8.0 to install
> >perfectly but both systems fail on boot.  The RedHat system refuses
> to
> >load the kernel and reports "Isufficient memory" while the EnGarde
> >system starts to load the kernel into memory, stops and prints 80.
> >
> >I have searched for quite some time for information about this card
> and
> >have been coming up empty handed.  I can't even find references to it
> in
> >the kernel.  Adaptec does list the 2010s as compatible with the Intel
> >SE7501WV2 motherboard and RedHat 8.0 as well.
> >
> >Does anyone have any suggestions or can point me to more information?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >     -Nick
> >
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