Adaptec S3210 RAID5 and Lilo

Craig Whitmore (linuxkernel@orcon.net.nz)
Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:27:14 +1300


I am using an Adaptec S3210 RAID5 card in a Dual Xeon 2.4G (Using various
kernels up to 2.4.20-rc1 and I cannot get it to boot via LILO at all (GRUB
Works fine)(I've tried the latest version of LILO)

When booting up LILO gives the error

LILO - Descriptor Checksum Error

and then just stops.

Has anyone any pointers on how to fix this.. All relivant info below
Any other info can be given easily.

Thanks
Craig Whitmore

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Boot sequence.

Loading Adaptec I2O RAID: Version 2.4 Build 5
Detecting Adaptec I2O RAID controllers...
Adaptec I2O RAID controller 0 at f880c000 size=100000 irq=24
dpti: If you have a lot of devices this could take a few minutes.
dpti0: Reading the hardware resource table.
TID 008 Vendor: ADAPTEC Device: AIC-7899 Rev: 00000001
TID 009 Vendor: ADAPTEC Device: AIC-7899 Rev: 00000001
TID 518 Vendor: ESG-SHV Device: SCA HSBP M15 Rev: 0.09
TID 524 Vendor: ADAPTEC Device: RAID-5 Rev: 370F
scsi0 : Vendor: Adaptec Model: 3210S FW:370F
Vendor: ADAPTEC Model: RAID-5 Rev: 370F
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Vendor: ESG-SHV Model: SCA HSBP M15 Rev: 0.09
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
SCSI device sda: 287080448 512-byte hdwr sectors (146985 MB)
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2
--------------------------
isk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 17869 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 498 4000153+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 499 17869 139532557+ 83 Linux
-------------------------
/etc/lilo.conf
lba32
boot=/dev/sda
root=/dev/sda1
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
root=/dev/sda1
restricted
-------------------------------
(lilo -v -v -v)

Reading boot sector from /dev/sda
Device 0x0801: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 17869 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Using MENU secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Secondary loader: 16 sectors (0x3000 dataend).

Boot image: /vmlinuz
Device 0x0801: BIOS drive 0x80, 255 heads, 17869 cylinders,
63 sectors. Partition offset: 63 sectors.
Setup length is 5 sectors.
Mapped 2637 sectors.
Added Linux *
<dev=0xe0,hd=16,cyl=30,sct=239>
"ro root=801"
---------------
(hdparm)
/dev/sda:
readonly = 0 (off)
geometry = 17869/255/63, sectors = 287080448, start = 0
----------------
hdparm -Tt

/dev/sda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 0.26 seconds =492.31 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 1.74 seconds = 36.78 MB/sec

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