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Subject: Re: 5.4 Installer + Promise FT100TX2 = Loader crash
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A little update on this:

I have upgraded my motherboard from Tyan S1854 (Award bios) to Tyan
S2510 (Ami. Megatrends bios). Same Promise TX2000, same disks. same
array. 5.4/6.0 install cds boot *fine*. So is bios change the
significant factor here?.

What I do notice is that the 5.4 (and 6.0) cd boot is quite slow
compared with (say) 4.10 - presumably the newer code is doing a whole
lot more probing(?)

regards

Mark

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:26, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
>>Hmm I see.. I know it works OK with 4.<mumble> as I have installed plenty
>>of systems like that. I will try some earlier 5.x releases (say, boot only
>>ISOs) and see how it goes.
> 
> 
> - 5.1   works.
> - 5.2   insta-reboot.
> - 5.2.1 BTX halted
> - 5.3   insta-reboot.
> - 5.4   insta-reboot.
> 
> 5.4 also spins in a loop forever printing register dumps, not sure if 5.2-5.3 
> do it as well.