Re: Problems on booting

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Saturday, 22 of December 2007, werner wrote:
> There seems to have two regressions between the kernels from yesterday and before-yesterday
> On the kernel -git7 what didnt happened on -git6
> 
> 1) My hard disk is /dev/hda, but when I have an usb key sticked in /dev/sba,

I guess you mean /dev/sda?

> and run lilo then, then it dont boot but give L99 99 99 99 ... error.  When I
> remove the usb stick from /dev/sba , and run then #lilo ,  then the result
> boots.  This problem was not present at the -git6 kernel   
> 
> 2) The boot stops / hangs on hardware detection of SCSI.  I have an Initio
> INI-9X00U/UW. The last messages during boot are, that it's verifying i91u
> scsi2 , then the boot hangs.  When I put the pci=off kernel option, then the
> boot process continues (but with this, by other reasons, my computer works
> only half, so that this is unpracticable).      This problem also didnt
> happens with the -git6 kernel    This problem happens only on one of my two
> computers, because the other has no SCSI card inside, that computer boots
> normally.       

I have opened a bugzilla entry at
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9621 and added it to the list of
reported regressions.

Thanks,
Rafael