From: aaron hosier (hosier@unl.edu)
Date: 02/03/93


From: hosier@unl.edu (aaron hosier)
Subject: Re: EISA + Linux: if, when, and how much?
Date: 3 Feb 1993 23:52:06 GMT

rbrown1@cc.swarthmore.edu (Randolph Gregory Brown) writes:

>My system is an EISA system, with an EISA hard drive controller. Attempting
>to boot the SLS root disk gave me 1) a warning to the effect that it
>couldn't find the drive controller at "i/o = 280" and 2) after the Linux
>version message, a list of child processes n->infinity which died at "008b".
> -Randy

This error about not finding a board is for a network board. The default
SLS kernel looks for a Western Digital board at i/o address 280, interrupt 5.
This is no problem with your system.

Aaron