Unable to boot any 5.x series kernel with SCSI enabled

[Arjan van Leeuwen]

On Monday 02 February 2004 21:31, Benjamin Slavin wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> This is my first time posting to the list, so please forgive any
> mistakes I might make.
>
> I'm currently running 4.9-STABLE without issue on a Dell Precision 420
> Workstation.
> The system is dual processor (P3-733) and has an Adaptec SCSI controller
> onboard (aic7899), and 512MB of RDRAM.
>
> I was curious to take a look at the 5-series, so I threw in an older 9GB
> SCSI drive and tried to install 5.2-RELEASE.
>
> Upon inserting the CD, the system starts to come up, but crashes when
> trying to initialize the SCSI drives. I can say that this happens in
> 5.1-RELEASE, 5.2-RELEASE, and 5.2.1-RC. If I try to boot in safe mode
> (or if I disable the SCSI controller in the BIOS), the system will come-up.
(...)

> Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
> ahc1: Timedout SCB already complete, Interrupts may not be functioning.
> Infinite interrupt loop, INSTAT = 0(probe16:ahc1:0:1:0): SCB 0x8 - timed
> out ...
> [a dump of the card state has been omitted, but can be provided]

Have you tried booting without ACPI?

Best regards,

Arjan
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