On 10-Dec-1999 David DeGeorge wrote:
> I have an alpha sx164 which has a problem when it rebooted via
> shutdown -r. This has happened with kernels 2.2.5 2.2.11 2.2.12 and
> 2.2.13, under RedHat6.0. It appears to be a problem in resetting the
> bus correctly. The symptoms are:
> 1. The UDMA disk connected to my Promise 20262 spins forever early
> on in the boot sequence. I am booting from the builtin ide controllers
> but the root is on hde.
> 2. The 8 SCSI disks connected to a 2940UW controller encounter parity
> errors and require many timeouts/resets before stabilizing. This of
> course destroyed the RAID5 disk that I had created with them.
> These symptoms are on different two machines with exactly the
> same motherboards, but different AlphaBioses and amount of memory.
> Is this a known problem with milo/kernel is it possible to get a
> colder boot.
Similar here. AlphaPC 164LX. With 2.2.7 the machines never rebooted properly and
always hanged on calibrating delay loop after shutdown -r. The machines are
Samsung Alphas with Stock debian 2.1 and the milo from redhat 5.2. The kernel
has been upgared to 2.2.7. So I am booting them always coldly.
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