AW: problem with kernel 2.4.X and qlogic

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Marcus Gellert [mailto:[email protected]]

>> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, "Berg, Björn" wrote:
> 

[...]

> > i compile and boot the 2.2.19 whitout problem (the 2.2.20 
> problem is in
> > other mail) but when i boot whit 2.4 series the
> > scsi subsystem fails
> >
> > i have a alcor alphastation 5/266 and this are the loop messages
> >
> > the scsi controller is a Qlogic isp 1020 and the driver i 
> am using is
> > Qlogic PCI
> 
> I have the same controller. And it's working with the qlogic 
> isp driver
> (CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP=y/m) in 2.4.17 as well as in 2.4.19
> And I think also in older versions the name of the driver was 
> the same.
> 
> With the older 2.2.x kernel everything is working? So it's no 
> problem of
> the hardware?

It works great with the 2.2.19 kernel coming with SuSE 7.1 AXP, but with
the self-made kernel of mine it does not work. Do you use it also in an
Alpha 5/266?? I have read in google-groups that it could also depend on
PCI which sounds very strange to me.

> Do you need the scsi controller for booting? If not you could 
> compile the
> driver as module, load it by hand and look into the mesages if your
> controller is found and correctlly initialised.
> (Also if you boot from this controller there should be a few 
> lines in the
> boot.msg file.)

I boot from the harddisk attached to the controller - I think. I am very
confused because I am not very familar with alpha stations. Boot command
from SRM looks like this (for 2.2.19):
>>> boot dka0 -file 3/boot/vmlinux.gz -flags "root=/dev/sda3"

Looks for me that I need the controller for booting otherwise I could
not access the harddisk and the kernel image on it, or does it not?

This works great for kernel 2.2.19. Would it bother you if I ask you to
send me your kernel config file for kernel 2.4.19. Then I could have a
look at it. Maybe I missed something very important. By the way was the
DevFS support already in 2.4.19 (the 2.2.x tree does not support it)??

Thanks for your help.
Björn