From: Artemio <artemio@artemio.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: HELP: kernel won't boot from /dev/sdb1
Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 09:47:38 +0300
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On Thursday 22 May 2003 05:59, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
> Those number are in hex, so "811" is major 8, minor 17 which
> is (or should be) /dev/sdb1. Look earlier in the boot up
> sequence, where the aic79xx driver is loaded and scans
> for devices. It should say that it has attached /dev/sdb .
> You may need a later version of that driver. Visit:
>      http://people.FreeBSD.org/~gibbs/linux
>
> Doug Gilbert

Thank you very much! 

I found the source tarball there - aic79xx-linux-2.4-20030520-tar.gz. 

(Also, what is aic79xx-linux-2.4-20030520.bksend.gz - seems to be some 
changelog?)

I will to build everything today (I have two AIC 7902 drives on that machine).


Many thanks again.

Artemio.


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