Re: Updated Debian Ports installation images 2021-09-23

Hi Ulrich!

On 10/10/21 19:38, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
> Just tested on a Alphastation 400 4/233. Booting went smooth (serial
> console) but the CDROM (in a DEC RRD45) could not be mounted:
> 
> ....
> Oct 10 19:20:19 kernel: [  324.340654] sr 0:0:4:0: [sr0] tag#265 unaligned transfer
> Oct 10 19:20:19 kernel: [  324.340654] blk_update_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 64 op 0x0:(READ) flags 0x0 phys_seg 1 prio class 0
> Oct 10 19:20:19 kernel: [  324.340654] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=sr0, iso_blknum=16, block=32
> ...
> 
> I've burned another CD-ROM and tried booting from that one, but got the
> same error, so I assume the unaligned transfer is the problem. Tried
> a Plextor UltraPlex instead of the RRD45 as well, same problem,

I have not seen this issue before on any machine and usually, reading problems are
due to hardware issues. Maybe the CD was not correctly burned?

FWIW, the change to re-enable EISA on alpha in the Debian kernel config has not been
merged yet due to bike-shedding over the proper changelog entry ... [1].

Adrian

> [1] https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/merge_requests/402